Display US Patent images

[Richard Tomkins]

How can I get Opera to display US Patent images?

These are supposed to be TIFF, possibly multiple image but a  single file.

OS X is currently sets the QuickTime plug-in to be the display application but it does not work in Safari, Camino or in Opera.

In Opera, it shows a big blue Q superimposed with a big white ?.

[Richard Tomkins]

This may or may not work, the US Patent Office URL's may be dynamically
generated.

http://patimg2.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=07480551&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspt
o.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526p%3D1%252
6u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-bool.html%2526r%3D31%2526f%3DG%2
526l%3D50%2526co1%3DAND%2526d%3DPTXT%2526s1%3Dmodel%2526s2%3Dtrain%2526OS%3D
model%252BAND%252Btrain%2526RS%3Dmodel%252BAND%252Btrain&PageNum=&Rtype=&Sec
tionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page

If that does not work, use the Patent simple search, use two terms, like
"model" and "train", select any of the listed patents, then select images.

This will illustrate the point.

On 1/26/09 3:44 PM, in article
1iu640j.1nz9cyk3iy8lcN%sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk, "Sn!pe"
<sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> I can open .tif files in my set-up, Opera 10.00 Alpha Build 6166 on
> Mac OS X 10.5.6. Otherwise you can open .tif in Preview. I wonder
> if there is something different about the files you're trying to view,
> would you care to post a URL so I can try?

[Richard Tomkins]

I apologize for my Top Posting. I use Entourage to get here and the
Microsoft interface is wonky.

On 2/3/09 5:40 AM, in article
1iuk5hr.1xkjvudtsog7dN%sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk, "Sn!pe"
<sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> Richard Tomkins <tomk...@istop.com> wrote:
>
>> This may or may not work, the US Patent Office URL's may be dynamically
>> generated.
>>
>> http://patimg2.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=07480551&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspt
>> o.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526p%3D1%252
>> 6u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-bool.html%2526r%3D31%2526f%3DG%2
>> 526l%3D50%2526co1%3DAND%2526d%3DPTXT%2526s1%3Dmodel%2526s2%3Dtrain%2526OS%3D
>> model%252BAND%252Btrain%2526RS%3Dmodel%252BAND%252Btrain&PageNum=&Rtype=&Sec
>> tionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page
>>
>> If that does not work, use the Patent simple search, use two terms, like
>> "model" and "train", select any of the listed patents, then select images.
>>
>> This will illustrate the point.
>

> That works perfectly for me.
>
> BTW, top-posting is generally not welcomed on Usenet, that's more for
> email where there is no thread to refer to; bottom-posting with concise
> quoting is the norm in newsgroups, it reads much more logically.