Mdi file: what to open?

Microsoft Document Imaging (or abbreviated MDI) is used by the program from the main Windows package called Microsoft Office Document Imaging. The basis is the TIFF format, but MDI has many advantages. For example, it not only provides the best image quality, but also has a smaller file size. Also worth mentioning is that it is possible to save text along with images in both formats. However, you can edit MDI format images only in the "native" program.

The program itself from the office suite has both advantages and disadvantages. A user-friendly interface allows you to increase the useful area of the monitor screen and reduce clutter. You can show, hide, expand, and collapse application windows. Children can also be cascaded or tiled in the main window. It is also important to note the memory savings and speed increase in the process of working in one window. The program provides "hot button combinations" that allow you to use fast navigation, which makes the work with the application even faster and more convenient, since it does not involve additional resources.

It is quite difficult to display the contents of several windows on different monitors, and it is also impossible to output content to various virtual desktops. In addition, when working with MDI format, than you open it, you already know, it's difficult to work in parallel with several applications simultaneously, because switching between windows is quite inconvenient. And also there is a certain chaos in the program, if several windows are open simultaneously.

It should be said that the "native" program is included only in the Office 2007 package, in earlier versions, the question arises again when the MDI format appears, rather than opening it. Installing Document Imaging on Windows XP will not work either. In the event that you do not have a program from the office suite Office 2007, or you do not want to spend money on it, the MDI Viewer program may be useful.

However, even development from a package can not always open an MDI extension. To solve this problem, you need to do the following.

In the event that when you double-click an MDI file in the program from the package does not open, and instead, an error message appears on the desktop, you must follow the steps below. The reason for the failure is that this program is not installed when you open the MDI file.

Decision:

1. On the Start menu, select the "Run" line, enter the appwiz.cpl command, and then click "Ok".

2. In the list of installed programs, you must select the version of Office 2007 installed on the computer.

3. Select the "Change" button.

4. Select "Add components", then click on "Continue".

5. You need to expand the Office Tools node.

6. Here we select Microsoft Office Document Imaging, set the value for the "Run All" program.

7. Click on the "Continue" button.

These actions should help solve the problem with the MDI format, than open it.

In addition, the file can be exported to tiff format using MDI Viewer, which you can download for free. So, after seeing the MDI format, you know how to open it: either by the program from the 2007 Office suite, or by using the MDI Viewer. This is a fairly simple development, albeit a little inconvenient compared to the program from Office, which allows you to view MDI files, print it, export it to TIFF, scale the picture in height and width, rotate by 90 °.

With the development of computer technology, the development of new programs and more advanced operating systems, there are all new file formats. And not always it is very easy to open and edit them. Many of the updated data formats that were developed after the introduction of the Office 2007 OS can not be opened on later operating systems by a standard software package. Sometimes you even have to use online convectors to convert docx to doc. After all, not all of today can put the latest operating system. I hope that now, when you see the MDI format file, than open it, you'll know for sure.