First line of my post referred to Don Penlington's advice to uncheck
"Only one
instance of Irfanview is active" box in IrfanView. Box was not checked.

I changed from .jgp to .bmp using "Save as" in IrfanView. As mentioned,
cannot open .jpg files with Paint.

Also tried PhotoDeluxe, which will only open one file at a time.

It would seem from line Don Penlington referred to that IrfanView should
open more than file at a time.

Paint works for my purpose, but as another pointed out .bmp files take
much more disk space than .jpg files. With Paint, I am at a lost why
virtually same files take such different amounts of disk space, 1.37M or
2.25M, or why Paint should take so much more disk space for .bmp files
than IrfanView, 1.37M or 2.25M v. 321K.

Demetri Kolokotronis

On Sun, 6 May 2001 10:04:39 -0400 Rick Glazier <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> The first half of the first line in the message reply (below) is not
> clear to me.
> So ignoring that,  It seems we are getting into another area
> of confusion about viewers.
> Note this was not a question of mine, I'm trying to sort out a
> possible answer for "others"...
>
> I am only speaking about the older "BMP only" version of MS Paint,
> and an older version of ACDC.  With "my" Paint, it will only work
> with
> BMP files so it will not convert file types.
> If I rename them as jpg files, they will not actually be that.
> More on that below...
>
> ACDC (on my system, maybe v2.3 or so) has been given the "OK" to
> open all graphic files based on the extension.
> The interesting thing is though, ACDC will scan the headers of
> all files in a directory and lets you Preview ANY file that is (or
> appears
> to be) a graphic file regardless of the extension. (A setting, hide
> non-graphic extensions, must be "un-set" in options.)
> This might be an explanation why a file that "seems" to be a certain
> type (extension) might actually be a file of a different type with a
> WRONG
> extension, but still be viewable as a graphic...  This could also
> explain
> why the sizes are so different from what could be reasonably
> expected.
> It the original files were not "converted" and only the file
> extensions were
> "renamed" or changed, this could be the cause of all of the
> problems.
>
> To give an easy example. When in ACDC viewer, PDF files appear
> as graphics.  Only the first page appears, and it is upside-down and
> inside out...
>
> Hope this was clear.         Rick Glazier
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Demetri Kolokotronis" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Although subject line not checked, I can open only one .jpg or
> .bmp file
> > with IrfanView. I can open multiple .bmp files with Paint, Win98,
> but no
> > .jpg file. That is why I wanted to change .jpg files to .bmp.
> >
> > Are there viewers that allow opening multiple .jpg files? If there
> are
> > such viewers, are there disadvantages to having .jpg files instead
> of
> > .bmp?  Are there instances where web pages can be copied as .bmp
> files,
> > but not .jpg?
> >
> > With IrfanView, file that takes 24K disk space .jpg, takes 321K
> .bmp.
> > With Paint .bmp file takes 1.37M or 2.25M disk space. I do not
> know why
> > file would take 1.37M or 2.25M disk space.

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