MegaView 8.05 - User Guide and FAQ

1. Select File>Supported Formats (you will need to have the Simplified Interface option switched off when you do this - you can find this on the first tab)
   
2. Click on 'Select..' beside the Sound Files list
   
3. Uncheck the MP3 Option and click OK
   
4. Check the 'Custom Formats option'
   
5. Click 'Add and Select..'
   
6. Click 'Add..', enter *.MP3 and click OK
   
7. Click on the Single Click tab and the custom formats option is set to 'Display with the Windows default program.'
   
8. Click OK to exit

1. Select File>Supported Formats (you will need to have the setting, 'Simplified Interface' turned off under File>Options)
   
2. Beside the 'Common' formats, click 'Select'
   
3. Find the "*.Art" item and ensure it is checked
   
4. Click OK

Frequently Asked Questions - MegaView

1. The Help file says to select the XYZ item in the File menu, but I can't see the menu, what can I do?
   You have probably hidden the Menu, press 'Ctrl+M' to redisplay it or 'Shift+Esc' to reset all your view settings.
   
   
2. When I try to play some AVI video files, I get the error "vids: mjpg decompressor missing". What does this mean?
   You will need to download an MJpeg codec.
   
   
3. I cannot get some multimedia formats to play, what should I do?
   MegaView will generally be able to play all files that have a valid MCI driver. Windows should provide MCI drivers for all common formats which you want to play.
   
   
4. After installing MegaView all my image icons have changed to MegaView icons and now when I click on an image in Explorer, I no longer see an example image displayed. Can I fix this?
   You have associated your images with MegaView, you need to revert this association. To do this, select File>Supported Formats.
   
   If you are using the 'Simplified User Interface options, click OK to the first dialog displayed and then in the next dialog (headed select formats) uncheck all the formats that are checked.
   
   If you are not using the simplified interface, select the 'Associations' tab, then click on the Associations button beside Images and uncheck all the formats that are checked.
   
   
5. Your documentation says that you support PDF files, but when I try to view a PDF file I get an Internet Explorer message saying 'Do you want to Load or Open this file?'
   To support PDF files you need to install the free Adobe Acrobat Viewer which installs a browser plug-in. You can download this from the Adobe Web Site.
   
   
6. How can I speed up the display of thumbnails?
   By default, MegaView loads thumbnails in the background so that you can continue to use the software without waiting for them to load, however you can disable this option under File>Options if you want to speed up their initial display.
   
   You should also review the size of the disk cache, a large disk cache will mean that when you return to a folder you have previously viewed the thumbnails will be retrieved from the cache and so load much faster.
   
   
   
7. I can't seem to get MegaView to crop the images where I have positioned the selection box. Why is that?
   MegaView uses Lossless cropping, meaning that there is no reduction in the quality of your JPEG images when you perform a crop (unlike in most other image editing software). The one limitation with cropping or rotating images losslessly, is that you are bound by certain data blocks within the image, this means that lossless crops will often be a few pixels out from your selection and when rotating a few pixels may be lost from the edge of an image.
   
   
8. I have some images on a CD-ROM that are JPEG's but have the extension of .THM. How can I make MegaView support them?
   Open the file, C:\Program Files\MegaView\formats.xdl in Notepad, and add *.thm to the end of the line, False_Extensions=...