Posted by
Michael Schmid on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/tif-or-tiff-tp3689279p3689281.html
Hi Norbert,
Windows Internet Explorer is known for all kind of troubles, caused
trying to be more smart than the user. Why not use Firefox? It should
not cause problems like this.
TIFF means "Tagged Image File Format", thus most systems except those
limited to 3-character file extensions (today or in the past) use
four letters.
Michael
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On 22 Feb 2010, at 15:47, Judy Trogadis wrote:
> 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