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Thank you sirbounty Yes, I had considered the unique GUIDs and searched the registry for them. It would appear to only be an internal thing, because none are stored in the registry. I also checked for temporary registry values and temporary files created at runtime, but can't find any external references to the GUIDs (with or without the hyphens). Obviously there may be implications if other program files are hard-coded with the GUIDs that are in the XML code, and may not recognise one I may try to add myself. I was also puzzled by the _locID@group=' lines, and assumed that because they seemed to be enclosed in like JavaScript style, that they were programmers' comments.

You have explained the way the rows and columns are defined very well and it falls right into place with a more visual representation as I look at it now, thanks to your breakdown. One of the reasons I was trying to create a different layout was to try and avoid the cropping of images. That's the annoyance of the 'Photo Printing Wizard' with some layouts. I've tested the printing using a virtual pdf printer and it hacks off significant slices of some images, depending on the layout.

For the full page single image prints, there are two options. One centres and only rotates to fit the page orientation, but the other crops and rotates to fit the page orientation. Fair enough, just use the one that doesn't crop anything, but for the multi-image page layouts (except the contact sheet), they all crop images. That's obviously dictated by the instruction: can-crop='yes' and this occurs (obviously) for those layout types with the description=' ' lines: 'cropped to fit' and 'cropped and rotated to fit'. I would hope to get a layout that doesn't crop anything, but I suppose that experimentation with images created using standard digital camera image sizes will obviously yield the best layout parameters if I can get this working. In the end it looks like the program just isn't capable of RESIZING images to fit. The Contact Sheet layout is the only one with the instruction: use-thumbnails-for-printin g='yes' All others say 'no'.

Apr 21, 2002:confused: Can someone help me figure out how to put Gif & Jpeg in the Windows Picture And Fax Viewer on XP Pro in the file type box. So that I might. Hardrive Deep Inside Acapella. Oct 31, 2003 Would anyone know the name and location of the Executable file that runs Windows Picture And Fax Viewer in XP Home? I have the IntelliPoint 4.1 Mouse.

It's probably extracting the actal thumbnail in the image metadata to use for the purpose and it doesn't matter about resizing degradation because the printed thumbnails are tiny anyway. I have noticed one annoyance with this Photo Printing Wizard. When choosing the 'Contact Sheet: 35 Prints per page' layout, you would expect to be able to change the 'number of times to use each picture' to '35' and have it display the preview at the right to reflect this after a short delay.

That field can only accept '15' as the maximum number. It will only scroll up to 15 using the clickable up arrow, and if you directly enter and overwrite 15 with 35, it reverts back to 15 after a short delay. Pressing Enter to try and force the value in the field (like MS Word font sizes below 8 or MS Word custom zoom size) just operates as an OK or Next command and prints. The Print Preview panel at the right never shows more than 15 thumbnail images, and the printout matches the preview.