[WEB4LIB] Re: .tiff files and IrfanView

[Phalbe Henriksen]

The file the patron wanted is at: 
<http://www.va.gov/OGC/opinions/1995/698957.asp>. I have no trouble opening 
it here at home with IrfanView.

Phalbe Henriksen

At 04:12 PM 5/23/2001 -0700, Robert Sullivan wrote:
> >I came across our first .tiff file problem this afternoon with a patron
> >using a Gates Foundation computer (Windows NT). I d/l'ed the file and took
> >it to my office and opened it without problem in IrfanView, a freeware
> >graphics viewer, which I had d/l'ed previously.
>
>Could you tell us the location at va.gov where it showed TIFF images?  I'd 
>like
>to test my setup against them.
>
>In the ensuing months since the original discussion, I have had a chance to
>see how the Gates PCs handled TIFFs.  On "our" PCs, I succeeded in tweaking
>QuickTime so that I was able to view patent images and the government 
>documents
>scanned by our state library.
>
>On the Gates PCs, I installed AlternaTIFF (our viewer of choice) but left
>QuickTime off, as I didn't want to modify the Gates configuration more than
>necessary.  For reasons which elude me, we can view patents but not New York
>state documents on our Gates PCs.
>
>This is probably caused by a fairly obscure setting, but the two sites also
>point out something else: all TIFFs are not created equal.
>
>When you view a Patent Office image, skipping between pages requires you 
>to use
>the links in the left menu.  AlternatTIFF's page number box is disabled. 
>Images
>posted by the New York State Library, on the other hand, have this feature
>available.  I suppose this means the USPTO creates one image per page, while
>NYSL uses a multipage format.
>
>It would be interesting to see how IrfanView handles these.  My test URL is
><http://nysdocs.nysed.gov/scandocs1.asp?oclc=15369732>, because that's the one
>my patron wanted to view.