PUB: Basic Options Dialog Box Appears When Importing CGM Files (164302)

SYMPTOMS

When you import a Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) picture into Microsoft Publisher, the Basic Options dialog box appears. If you click OK, the picture imports correctly.

This dialog box also appears when you click Picture on the Insert menu and then select a .cgm file from the list of available pictures. This dialog box is displayed when the Preview option is selected in the Insert Picture dialog box.

CAUSE

This behavior appears after you install Microsoft Media Manager. Microsoft Media Manager is one of the components in Microsoft Internet Studio.

Media Manager installs the same version of the CGM graphic import filter (Cgmimp32.flt) that Microsoft Publisher 97 does, but it changes the settings of that filter. When you install Publisher 97, the CGM filter is configured to show this dialog box when a program specifically asks it to. After you install Media Manager, the CGM filter displays the dialog box every time you import a .cgm file.

RESOLUTION

If you do not want the Basic Options dialog box to appear each time you insert or preview a .cgm file, reset the CGM import filter using these steps:

In Publisher, click Picture on the Insert menu.
Select any .cgm file, and then click Open.
In the Basic Options dialog box, click Dialogs.
In the Option Dialog list, click Requested.
Click OK.

Now the Basic Options dialog box only appears when a particular program asks it to.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Publisher 98.