Problems with .tif image files
When I set up this website on Windows 95 with Netscape 4.79, I had no problems with the .tif images
downloading and displaying with Wangimg.exe (W98 and later use Kodakimg.exe). This happy state of
affairs no longer exists and is not unique to my system.
I first discovered this problem when visiting a friend who was using IE on W95, which adamantly
refused to open the files with Wangimg.exe from the net or a CD of the website I had brought.
Wangimg.exe is the default program Windows 95 uses to open .tif files when they are double clicked.
I use the .tif format because it compresses files about 3 times smaller than .gif. The existing
class diagram collection uses 98% of my webspace.
I subsequently upgraded to Netscape 6.2 and discovered that it would not
display or download the images when clicking on the website links.
I found a fix for this problem on the EPA pesticide labels help site:
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/pestlabels/help.htm
They found that if a second Navigator window was opened, .tif and .tiff files would properly
download and display in the second Navigator window. (Clicking the ship's wheel icon (classic theme)
or the smaller N in a box icon (modern theme)
opens another Navigator window.) More helpful comments on getting .tif files displayed are at the EPA site.
Internet Explorer on my computer stopped displaying the .tif class diagrams when QT6 was installed.
I was able to repair Internet Explorer by editing the registry. I removed the .tiff
folder under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Plugins\Extension\
The .tiff folder had several lines directing IE to use QT6 to process image/.tiff files.
I exported the .tiff folder before erasing it to allow easy recovery. A similar registry edit
may get IE to display .tif files on your computer. The usual caveats apply to such a registry
edit: you do it at your own risk and be careful. It would be wise to make a backup, especially
of the registry, before making experimental changes to the registry. Registry editting allows
one to see what helper applications (plugins) are installed in IE.
Another possible way to gain access to the class diagrams is to use the ftp protocol.
The ftp address to the class diagrams is: ftp://ftp-www.earthlink.net/~vnlbeck/;
you can add the appropriate suffix to get the particular class and drawing desired.
This can be typed into the top line of the browser to download files by hand using ftp.
If you have more tricks to get browsers to behave with tif files, I would be delighted to put
them (or links to them) here.
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