Reviewer, 2009-03-23 02:33:00

FAX, TIF (TIFF), PDF, EPS, AI, DCX, DIC viewer and converter, offers you a full solution for viewing, editing, printing, saving, converting. Able Fax TIF View can convert multi-page files to standard TIFF/FAX format, jpeg, PNG, bmp, PCX, gif, PDF and WMF.

Features: Able Fax TIF View is a multi-page Fax viewer. It will let you edit a fax and convert between the formats supported. Image formats that you can support in the application include FAX, TIF, PDF, EPS, PS, AI, DCX, DICOM, JBIG etc. It can show all kinds of FAX images, multi-page FAX and TIFF images (rev.6.0, Packbits, LZW, CCITT G.3 and G.4) with RGB, CMYK, B/W and animated GIF as well as FAX (CCITT3), G3F and G3N (Zetafax). The formats that are viewable can be easily printed to a printer supported on your operating system via the printing dialog. Actual print size, area and position on paper etc. can be controlled.

The conversion of image formats is available between standard Fax & TIFF files to JPEG format(RGB, Gray Scale, YCbCr, CMYK, YCbCrK, PNG, BMP, PCX, GIF, DIB, RLE, TGA (TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX), Portable Bitmap PBM, PDF, PS, DICOM formats. Supported color depths are 1 bit for black & white, 4 bits for 16 colors or gray levels, 8 bits and 24 bit colors too. Functions that support viewing include scrolling, zooming, menu functions, anti-aliasing, rotation, flip and invert. Print is supported and tag analyzer functions are available. All TWAIN compatible scanners and cameras are supported.

Overall: Quite a sophisticated package that handles all these image formats and makes handling faxes very easy. But then in today`s situation, how many users would really need such a sophisticated fax package?