Small Favour Please? Takes Seconds If You Have Got MS Office 2003 Or Above...

sitalchauhan · 30 Apr 2007 at 18:52

I have got an important file that was sent to myself.
It is a list of some DJing music: artists and tracknames.

However, the person sent the file as a .MDI file (MS Office Document Imaging File) saved through Office 2003.

I have only got Office 2000, so cannot open MDI files.

Office 2003 supports .MDI files, so I am assuming any office newer than 2003 will also support it.

If somebody could open this .MDI file with Office and then save it as a .TIF file and reupload it, I would be extremely grateful. (or any other common file format but it is supposed to be easily saved as a .tiff. You can upload it to rapidshare, etc, or ** own webspace temporarily if you have it)

Supposedly you just open the .MDI file and then "save as..." and choose .tif file type, or "export as .tif" and it is supposed to be extremely simple.

Here is the .MDI file:
http://www.sitalchauhan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Other/MusicList.MDI

Thanks soo much in advance, you really would be doing me a massive favor as this is quite important

marc2003 · 30 Apr 2007 at 19:13

that 2.5mb file turned into 96mb when converted..... :eek:

but luckily there was a compression option which reduced the quality so i've got it down to 29mb.

i'm running a webserver on my home pc so i can host for you. trouble is my upload is only going to be 30-40kb/s so it'll take awhile.

http://merrydown.dyndns.org/musiclist.tif

BruceLee · 30 Apr 2007 at 19:14

OK give me a minute, (just so you dont get 20 people doing the same thing)

See, there we go

Wow, just tried opening the 96mb file and it chewed up all my RAM, 1.5gb's worth.

MNuTz · 30 Apr 2007 at 19:17

Would openoffice not convert it? It does pretty much everything else!

sitalchauhan · 30 Apr 2007 at 19:26

Wow thanks!
Downloading it right now...
Will edit this post once I have finished so that you can delete it when Ive finished.

I dont think openoffice would convert the file as there is no info I could find in google.

Thanks again!

oddjob62 · 30 Apr 2007 at 19:30

Turned into a nice little 363KB PDF for me

marc2003 · 30 Apr 2007 at 19:39

oddjob62 said:
Turned into a nice little 363KB PDF for me

git.

sitalchauhan · 30 Apr 2007 at 19:39

Could you upload that pdf file please? Might be a bit easier to handle and look through than this TIF image.

Thanks for all the help guys!

oddjob62 · 30 Apr 2007 at 19:44

http://www.zen12326.zen.co.uk/MusicList.pdf

sitalchauhan · 30 Apr 2007 at 19:50

Thanks for all the help guys. I also posted this on a different forum and had equally impressive fast responses!

Now I have got a tiff file, pdf and also somebody found this program:

http://www.hot.ee/mdiviewer/

Thanks again!

marc2003 · 30 Apr 2007 at 20:03

just looking at my server logs and i see you are still running windows 98.. :eek:

sitalchauhan · 1 May 2007 at 17:47

marc2003 said:
just looking at my server logs and i see you are still running windows 98..

Huh, me?
Nope, im definately running WinXP Home SP2...
What lead you to think I was running Win98 :rolleyes:

?

marc2003 · 1 May 2007 at 18:18

sitalchauhan said:
What lead you to think I was running Win98 ?

i already said what i thought it was.... my server log

if you're not running windows 98, maybe your browser or even a proxy server is hiding what you're really running? :confused:

sitalchauhan · 2 May 2007 at 21:39

Im just using the standard firefox, not changed any settings, all default, apart from small things like themes etc.

Not running behind a proxy server, dont even know what one is fully! I am just connected at home with ethernet via: PC -> D-Link Router -> Cable Modem

Cant think of what is making my system report as Win98...