Quicktime Translation of image

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tommy_harper
Jul 24, 2007
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OK, let’s try this again without that fat little finger getting in the way. I put an image up on our ftp site this morning for a Danish publication. For security reasons it is placed in an upload folder and automatically promulgates to a publication folder where it will reside for several days before the file will self destruct. In order to download, the client has to know the exact filename, but that is not the problem. After publishing the image I went to the folder via a web browser and attempted to download the image on a pc. The image shows up as a Quicktime file and requires (for me) Quicktime Pro to download.

I remember having this problem several years ago with (I think) Photoshop 5 or 5.5, but I don’t remember why this happened.

I scanned the file from a transparency this morning on a Nikon 8000 scanner attached to my Mac G5 and uploaded the file via WSftp-LE on the pc. I know that QT Pro is very inexpensive, but I work for a government operation and the paperwork to download a web based software application is horrendous!

Does anyone have any ideas?
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Jul 24, 2007
Since this is from a scanner, it’s probably a TIFF file (e.g., file.tif). Quicktime typically has its preferences set to act as a browser plug-in for .tif files, which would let the file be viewed within Quicktime but not saved (without the Pro upgrade). There are two remedies: (1) instead of clicking on the link to the file, right-click and save it; or (2) set your Quicktime preferences not to open .tif files in the browser (but in that case you won’t be able to view .tif files in the browser) by opening the Quicktime viewer, clicking on Edit > Preferences, click on the Browser tab, click on Mime Types, click on Still Images, and uncheck TIFF.

Personally, I’d use method (1), if there is a link on a page to get to the image file. If you enter in in the address bar of the browser, you’d have to use method (2). This may result in a huge screenful of meaningless stuff on the screen, in which case you would have to click on File > Save Page As, then set the file type at the bottom of the dialog to "All files", and then save to a filename in the form of xxx.tif.
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LenHewitt
Jul 24, 2007
Tommy,

If you don’t need the file to be viewable in the browser, one way to make sure it ‘saves to disk’ is to compress as either a .zip or stuffit file before uploading.

How a file behaves when downloading from the web depends upon several things such as the mime types set on the server and in the browser, and how Microsoft choose to handle files if the browser is I.E.

More details can be found at:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@@.ef7ba11.ef732e1
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stevent
Jul 24, 2007
ps: you don’t need the Pro version to view images either.

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24374>
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Brett Dalton
Jul 25, 2007
Zipping it is also a good idea as it will let you know if the file was damaged in any way during transmission.

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deaton
Jul 26, 2007
Thanks guys, zipping the file worked.

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