Reader for MDI

Is there any way to read an *.MDI document without Office 2003?

Have your sender convert the document to a .tif.

Office 2007 will read the .mdi format.

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"Lwallace69@hotmail.com" <Lwallace69@hotmail.com@discussions.microsoft.co m>
wrote in message news:5745C343-F320-4033-9A02-2124632CDF2B@microsoft.com...
> Is there any way to read an *.MDI document without Office 2003?

Will office 20002 read tif format?

"Lwallace69@hotmail.com" wrote:

> Is there any way to read an *.MDI document without Office 2003?

I am sending. The people I send to doesn't know how to convert to tif. Is
there a reader down load available?

"Mary Sauer" wrote:

> Have your sender convert the document to a .tif.
>
> Office 2007 will read the .mdi format.
>
> --
> Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
> http://office.microsoft.com/
> http://msauer.mvps.org/
> news://msnews.microsoft.com
>
> "Lwallace69@hotmail.com" <Lwallace69@hotmail.com@discussions.microsoft.co m>
> wrote in message news:5745C343-F320-4033-9A02-2124632CDF2B@microsoft.com...
> > Is there any way to read an *.MDI document without Office 2003?
>
>
>

No there are no MDI readers as such unless one has Office 2003
installed. However, there is one another way to send documents which
can be read by anybody on XP systems. That other way is to create a
..XPS file format and this is done by the sender who has .NET framework
installed on their systems. You can download it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

also read about it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/viewxps.mspx

The file created as .XPS is read in IE browser. Effectively you print
the document to a XPS printer that is installed on your system when you
install the .net framework package. this is very much similar to a PDF
format except that MS decided to have its own system in place should
ADOBE stops it from using its engine.

Hope this helps.



Lwallace69@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> I am sending. The people I send to doesn't know how to convert to tif. Is
> there a reader down load available?
>
> "Mary Sauer" wrote:
>
> > Have your sender convert the document to a .tif.
> >
> > Office 2007 will read the .mdi format.
> >
> > --
> > Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
> > http://office.microsoft.com/
> > http://msauer.mvps.org/
> > news://msnews.microsoft.com
> >
> > "Lwallace69@hotmail.com" <Lwallace69@hotmail.com@discussions.microsoft.co m>
> > wrote in message news:5745C343-F320-4033-9A02-2124632CDF2B@microsoft.com...
> > > Is there any way to read an *.MDI document without Office 2003?
> >
> >
> >

You may also need to download these updated files:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en



ANONYMOUS wrote:
>
> No there are no MDI readers as such unless one has Office 2003
> installed. However, there is one another way to send documents which
> can be read by anybody on XP systems. That other way is to create a
> .XPS file format and this is done by the sender who has .NET framework
> installed on their systems. You can download it here:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
>
> also read about it here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/viewxps.mspx
>
> The file created as .XPS is read in IE browser. Effectively you print
> the document to a XPS printer that is installed on your system when you
> install the .net framework package. this is very much similar to a PDF
> format except that MS decided to have its own system in place should
> ADOBE stops it from using its engine.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Lwallace69@hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > I am sending. The people I send to doesn't know how to convert to tif. Is
> > there a reader down load available?
> >
> > "Mary Sauer" wrote:
> >
> > > Have your sender convert the document to a .tif.
> > >
> > > Office 2007 will read the .mdi format.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
> > > http://office.microsoft.com/
> > > http://msauer.mvps.org/
> > > news://msnews.microsoft.com
> > >
> > > "Lwallace69@hotmail.com" <Lwallace69@hotmail.com@discussions.microsoft.co m>
> > > wrote in message news:5745C343-F320-4033-9A02-2124632CDF2B@microsoft.com...
> > > > Is there any way to read an *.MDI document without Office 2003?
> > >
> > >
> > >

The .tif format is generally an image. MS Paint will open .tif's. You can also
insert .tif's into most Office programs.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

"Lwallace69@hotmail.com" <Lwallace69hotmailcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:A8E23D58-F47E-4E44-99D3-522B5310F74E@microsoft.com...
> Will office 20002 read tif format?
>
> "Lwallace69@hotmail.com" wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to read an *.MDI document without Office 2003?

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Actually TIFF file which used after converting it from MDI with jpeg compresision and not every viewer supports it.
For example you can use MDI2PDF Convertor from Bugysoft BUGYSOFT Ltd - MDI2PDF Convertor and save it to PDF.