August 27th, 2022
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Viewing JP2 image files in Windows 11

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I had some of these image files from some legacy clip art photos from an older version of Corel Draw.

Ideally I wanted to be able to preview them in windows explorer, as happens automatically with JPG files, however this would not work. I tried IrfanView, which is a separate image viewer, but this failed to view the files, as it could not locate jpeg2000.dll. I tried to locate and install the dll online, but was unable to prevent the error, so IrfanView would not work.

I tried another package, the FastStone Image Viewer, and this worked successfully. You can select folders in the left column in an explorer like fashion, and the jp2 images are shown as large icons on the right. Whilst I still could not preview them in explorer, FastStone worked perfectly well in being able to preview these legacy images. It can also view a number of other graphics formats such as WMF which I had used previously for the company logo.

An install kit for FastStone can be downloaded here.

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