Re: tif or tiff
Posted by
Judy Trogadis on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/tif-or-tiff-tp3689279p3689280.html
Hi, Norbert
Are you talking about Internet Explorer or a Windows browser - which is doing the storing? You can make the extensions visible by opening My Computer Tools/Folder Options/View and uncheck the box "hide extensions for known file types".
I have never seen the extension change. It is always .tif - from the old DOS days when file extensions were limited to 3 letters.
Judy
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>>> Norbert Vischer <
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Using our "Windows XP" campus computers, I have problems with tif file names. Obviously, Internet Explorer changes silently filenames: e.g, if I go to
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/images/
and download "abe.tif", Internet Explorer stores this as "abe.tiff", while the extension is hidden and the type is classified as "TIF". This breaks macros that rely on file names. Drag&dropping the URL directly into ImageJ leaves the extension intact. Putting them into a zip archive, leaves them also intact, but unpacking is more complicated than on the Mac. Firefox seems ok, but I don't have knowledge of the user's browser. Anyone who has the same problem? Will I have to write lengthy manuals when distributing example macros together with images in order to compensate for the unwanted "cleverness" of Internet Explorer? Or avoid the ".tif" extension which seems to be default in ImageJ?
Is there a trend which of "tif" or "tiff" is more official?
Norbert Vischer