US Patent Office Site - Image Viewer Problem

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Jim Thompson

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I visited the USPTO website today (using Mozilla Firefox) and got a
message that Quicktime Plug-In installation was required.

Quicktime is already installed on my machine, but I clicked the
install-plug-in box anyway. But it won't install, getting a "manual
install" message. That doesn't work either.

Fired up IE, it just shows the "no image" symbol.

Ideas? Or alternative plug-ins?

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
Jim Thompson wrote:
I visited the USPTO website today (using Mozilla Firefox) and got a
message that Quicktime Plug-In installation was required.

Quicktime is already installed on my machine, but I clicked the
install-plug-in box anyway. But it won't install, getting a "manual
install" message. That doesn't work either.

Fired up IE, it just shows the "no image" symbol.

Ideas? Or alternative plug-ins?
Click to expand...
I don't have Quicktime installed and I don't have any problem searching
at the site. Maybe you should uninstall it.
 
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:14:31 -0500, rickman <spamgoeshere4@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
I visited the USPTO website today (using Mozilla Firefox) and got a
message that Quicktime Plug-In installation was required.

Quicktime is already installed on my machine, but I clicked the
install-plug-in box anyway. But it won't install, getting a "manual
install" message. That doesn't work either.

Fired up IE, it just shows the "no image" symbol.

Ideas? Or alternative plug-ins?

I don't have Quicktime installed and I don't have any problem searching
at the site. Maybe you should uninstall it.
Click to expand...
I installed the AlternaTIFF plug-in for Firefox. Working just fine.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:51:07 +0000, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

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:
I visited the USPTO website today (using Mozilla Firefox) and got a
message that Quicktime Plug-In installation was required.

Quicktime is already installed on my machine, but I clicked the install-
plug-in box anyway. But it won't install, getting a "manual install"
message. That doesn't work either.

Fired up IE, it just shows the "no image" symbol.

Ideas? Or alternative plug-ins?

If you do find a way to get into the site, patent it. (;-)
Click to expand...
;-) I installed the AlternaTIFF plug-in for Firefox. Working just
fine.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

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

Jim Thompson wrote:
I visited the USPTO website today (using Mozilla Firefox) and got a
message that Quicktime Plug-In installation was required.

Quicktime is already installed on my machine, but I clicked the
install-plug-in box anyway. But it won't install, getting a "manual
install" message. That doesn't work either.

Fired up IE, it just shows the "no image" symbol.

Ideas? Or alternative plug-ins?

...Jim Thompson
Click to expand...
 
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:05:28 GMT, Paul Rako
<s_p_ortsterpa_u_l@yahoo.com> wrote:

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

[snip]
Click to expand...

Hi, Paul. Thanks for the tip.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
In article <jb5s11d7r3hk20ccmjeqsvhpjjgq37og79@4ax.com>, Jim Thompson wrote:
I visited the USPTO website today (using Mozilla Firefox) and got a
message that Quicktime Plug-In installation was required.

Quicktime is already installed on my machine, but I clicked the
install-plug-in box anyway. But it won't install, getting a "manual
install" message. That doesn't work either.

Fired up IE, it just shows the "no image" symbol.

Ideas? Or alternative plug-ins?
Click to expand...
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)
 
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