Electronics Forum / CAD / February 2005

I remembered AlternaTIFF, tracked it down, and installed as a Firefox
Plug-in.

                                       ...Jim Thompson

           
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <jb5s11d7r3hk20ccmjeqsvhpjjgq37og79@
4ax.com>) about 'US Patent Office Site - Image Viewer Problem', on Thu,
24 Feb 2005:

If you do find a way to get into the site, patent it. (;-)

I don't have Quicktime installed and I don't have any problem searching
at the site.  Maybe you should uninstall it.

I just installed QT 6 and asked for the "custom" install as I
usually do with software.  I noticed that there was a checkbox
for "TIFF file viewer".  You may have to upgrade your QT or you
may have to reinstall and do the "custom" route, making sure
that TIFF viewer checkbox is checked.

Paul

 Use AlternaTiff (I wonder if I spelled this right), and it may only work
with Internet Explorer and Netscape.
 AlternaTiff is one of two plug-ins recommended by the USPTO.

 I recommend using Internet Explorer, clicking on links in the USPTO
website that mention these plug-ins, and going on from there.

 Been there, done that, although I don't remember every step in detail.

 One complaint - at least sometimes need to do this again after
upgrading the web browser.

 One reason why this happens:  TIF images for patents are often to
normally a specific subtype of TIF, as in 2-color black-and-white and
compressed with the "CCITT Group 4 (2d) Fax" compression - there are at
least 3 other TIF compressions.

 Windows Imaging will display this kind of TIF, but I don't know how to
make a web browser take advantage of this.

- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)