Viewing whole picture in Microsoft Paint

Is it possible to view the WHOLE of a large picture in Paint?
By this I mean the equivalent of Photoshop's "Fit on Screen", or the ability
to "Zoom Out" to LESS than 100%.
Paint doesn't do much, but it is very fast to open and to operate and can
open damaged files that Photoshop rejects. If I could get Paint to show the
whole picture in one go it would make it far more useful as a viewer, and
make cropping large images into a practical proposition.
Without a view-whole-picture facility it is hopeless for cropping because it
is only possible to drag a selection accurately across the (often very small)
portion of the image that is visible on screen!
Any suggestions anyone?

Walsallian wrote:
Is it possible to view the WHOLE of a large picture in Paint?
By this I mean the equivalent of Photoshop's "Fit on Screen", or the ability
to "Zoom Out" to LESS than 100%.
Paint doesn't do much, but it is very fast to open and to operate and can
open damaged files that Photoshop rejects. If I could get Paint to show the
whole picture in one go it would make it far more useful as a viewer, and
make cropping large images into a practical proposition.
Without a view-whole-picture facility it is hopeless for cropping because it
is only possible to drag a selection accurately across the (often very small)
portion of the image that is visible on screen!
Any suggestions anyone?

Hi,

Put Paint to bed.

http://www.irfanview.com/

MM

"Walsallian" wrote:

Is it possible to view the WHOLE of a large picture in Paint?
By this I mean the equivalent of Photoshop's "Fit on Screen", or the ability
to "Zoom Out" to LESS than 100%.
Paint doesn't do much, but it is very fast to open and to operate and can
open damaged files that Photoshop rejects. If I could get Paint to show the
whole picture in one go it would make it far more useful as a viewer, and
make cropping large images into a practical proposition.
Without a view-whole-picture facility it is hopeless for cropping because it
is only possible to drag a selection accurately across the (often very small)
portion of the image that is visible on screen!
Any suggestions anyone?

As MM said, get Irfanview (www.irfanview.com). It's free, its quick,
it's excellent. If the picture you're viewing doesn't fit on the
screen, just hit the CR and Irfanview will resize it so that it fits
the screen. Just that quickly.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)

You mean there is actually freeware without adware, malware or spyware.
What's the catch?

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"Walsallian" wrote:

Is it possible to view the WHOLE of a large picture in Paint?
By this I mean the equivalent of Photoshop's "Fit on Screen", or the
ability
to "Zoom Out" to LESS than 100%.
Paint doesn't do much, but it is very fast to open and to operate and can
open damaged files that Photoshop rejects. If I could get Paint to show
the
whole picture in one go it would make it far more useful as a viewer, and
make cropping large images into a practical proposition.
Without a view-whole-picture facility it is hopeless for cropping because
it
is only possible to drag a selection accurately across the (often very
small)
portion of the image that is visible on screen!
Any suggestions anyone?

As MM said, get Irfanview (www.irfanview.com). It's free, its quick,
it's excellent. If the picture you're viewing doesn't fit on the
screen, just hit the CR and Irfanview will resize it so that it fits
the screen. Just that quickly.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)

Dan wrote:
You mean there is actually freeware without adware, malware or spyware.
What's the catch?


There is no catch, Dan. And there is other freeware out there without
ads, etc.; you just have to read about what you're getting. Most people
don't, so they assume that all freeware is bad.

How much did you pay for Spybot and AdAware?

MM

Good point, MM. Thanks, although in the case of Adaware and Spybot I was
pretty sure it was okay by the fact that Microsoft suggests using these
products on one of their websites as well as MVP's talking about the two
products being important in the fight against junk. :

"Mostly Me (MM)" wrote in message
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Dan wrote:
You mean there is actually freeware without adware, malware or spyware.
What's the catch?


There is no catch, Dan. And there is other freeware out there without
ads, etc.; you just have to read about what you're getting. Most people
don't, so they assume that all freeware is bad.

How much did you pay for Spybot and AdAware?

MM

"Dan" wrote:

You mean there is actually freeware without adware, malware or spyware.
What's the catch?

I haven't found one yet. It is amazing, but apparently Irfan Skiljan,
the author of this program, is simply a good guy.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)

Thanks Folks, I'll try Irfanview.
I entirely agree about Spybot and Ad-Aware. They are free (though there's a
pay version of the latter as well) and I'd add SpywareBlaster too which
specifically deals with Active-X controls - there's a link to it on the
Spybot screen and web-site.
Only problem - Spybot updates are a pig to download if you have a dial-up
connection, just try opening and closing Microsoft Word documents during the
download to speed it up (I know it sounds daft but it works for me!). The
other thing is to avoid scams with similar names to these products.

Very true, you must be careful about scams. Did you know that you can
change the place that you download the updates from. You can choose default
of Europe or Australia or U.S., etc. Hopefully, choosing another area may
make your downloads a little faster even with a dial-up connection.

"Walsallian" wrote in message
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Thanks Folks, I'll try Irfanview.
I entirely agree about Spybot and Ad-Aware. They are free (though there's
a
pay version of the latter as well) and I'd add SpywareBlaster too which
specifically deals with Active-X controls - there's a link to it on the
Spybot screen and web-site.
Only problem - Spybot updates are a pig to download if you have a dial-up
connection, just try opening and closing Microsoft Word documents during
the
download to speed it up (I know it sounds daft but it works for me!). The
other thing is to avoid scams with similar names to these products.