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TIFF images in a browser
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Tempe, AZ
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I have a CD full of TIFF images. The images have a nice web interface to browse them. the user puts the CD in opens up the browser interface (HTML) and select the image he want to further work with. The image should then be somehow located on the CD. I would like to be able to just right click on the image and save it to (lets say) the Desktop.
How can this be done?
TIFF images do not show up in a browser, and if I make them JPG for browsing, I cannot save them as a TIFF to the desktop.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
t
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: England
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Make JPEGS for each one, and have the JPEG link to a TIFF. If TIFFs don't show in your browser (they do in OmniWeb) then the image will be downloaded when the link is clicked on.
Amorya
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What the nerd community most often fail to realize is that all features aren't equal. A well implemented and well integrated feature in a convenient interface is worth way more than the same feature implemented crappy, or accessed through a annoying interface.
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Mar 2001
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In other words, JPG thumbnails pointing to the TIFFs.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Well that is the way I have it set up actually, but when a user clicks on the link they get the the MIME/type error, because the browser does not know what to do with it. Would there be a way to pop up the save as/save to window instead? With the MIME/type error window I get only choices of Plugin, and or cancel pretty much. My bosses do not like that. Any ideas, how could the file be saved to the desktop instead?
Thank you,
t
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally posted by t_hah:
Any ideas, how could the file be saved to the desktop instead?
hmm. maybe investigate a download script, which forces such a thing? here's a perl url, and a php one. might not be what you want, but i'm sure they'd get you the desired effect?
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"Have sharp knives. Be creative. Cook to music" ~ maxelson
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Well, the real problem is this project sounds like its end use is on a CD, NOT a webserver where perl and php would be helpful.
If a person installs the quicktime plugin, it can handle displaying of TIFF files. You could include a test to see if the plugin is installed and then prompt the user to download it if they don't have it.
Test it yourself. The first time I saw a tif open in my browser I thought, "What app is opening it here?"
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