Tiff Filter in Office 2003 - missing

[Wade]

The Tiff filter (tiffim32.flt) no longer seems to be available in office
2003. Its not an option when installing, its not in the Conversion Pack.
Other than converting all tiffs to one of the supported filters (jpg, gif,
cdr, etc.) is there any other way to display a tiff file in an image control
(in Access)? Currently my image control is linked to either a jpg or tif.
Also, why did they take it out?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Wade,

TIFF is is a built in filter in Office XP and Office 2003
rather than a separate .FLT file as in prior versions.
MS Office document imaging (optional install) but if you have
the older version of the filter you may be able to add it
to the Filters folder, however you may want to check with
the folks in the MS Office Access newsgroup (link below)

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The Tiff filter (tiffim32.flt) no longer seems to be available in office
2003. Its not an option when installing, its not in the Conversion Pack.
Other than converting all tiffs to one of the supported filters (jpg, gif,
cdr, etc.) is there any other way to display a tiff file in an image control
(in Access)? Currently my image control is linked to either a jpg or tif.
Also, why did they take it out? >>
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LLet us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends8

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B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Wade]

Thanks for the reply,

Just FYI (and a little background), I have an image control on a form that
is linked (as opposed to embedded) to either a tif file or jpg file (i.e.
the "Picture" property of the control is set to "C:\image.tif" or
"C:\image.jpg") and if the control is linked to a tif file (doesn't matter
what the size of the tif file is - even as small as 35K) I receive the
message "Microsoft Office Access doesn't support the format of the file
'filename.tif,' or file is too large. Try converting the file to BMP or GIF
format.". But if the control is linked to a jpg (I've used jpg files as
large as 2MB) everything works fine. If I convert the tif file to a jpg,
everything works. But merely copying the flt filter from an Office XP
installation (tiffim32.flt) to the Filters folder (c:\program files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\Grphflt) where the other filters are, still doesn't
allow the tif file to be viewable in Access 2003.

Again I thank you for your reply and I'll post at the news groups you
suggested to see if anyone there knows why...
1. MS took this functionality out of the image control in Access 2003?
2. Other than converting to a supported file format, is there any way to
view a tif image in an image control in Access 2003?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Wade,

To 'activate' one of the graphic filters turn
on Confirm Conversions on open in Tools=>Options=>General
in Word then use insert Picture from file and test on
one of the same TIF files. Sometimes a restart will be
required when you're adding an external filter that Office
expects to work internally.

Also it can depend on the TIFF file itself. It it's scanned,
for example and it's 48 bit then it may not work with the
Office filters.

Still a good idea though to post MS Access specific queries
in that newsgroup (see link in previous message).
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Thanks for the reply,

Just FYI (and a little background), I have an image control on a form that
is linked (as opposed to embedded) to either a tif file or jpg file (i.e.
the "Picture" property of the control is set to "C:\image.tif" or
"C:\image.jpg") and if the control is linked to a tif file (doesn't matter
what the size of the tif file is - even as small as 35K) I receive the
message "Microsoft Office Access doesn't support the format of the file
'filename.tif,' or file is too large. Try converting the file to BMP or GIF
format.". But if the control is linked to a jpg (I've used jpg files as
large as 2MB) everything works fine. If I convert the tif file to a jpg,
everything works. But merely copying the flt filter from an Office XP
installation (tiffim32.flt) to the Filters folder (c:\program files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\Grphflt) where the other filters are, still doesn't
allow the tif file to be viewable in Access 2003.

Again I thank you for your reply and I'll post at the news groups you
suggested to see if anyone there knows why...
1. MS took this functionality out of the image control in Access 2003?
2. Other than converting to a supported file format, is there any way to
view a tif image in an image control in Access 2003? >>

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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

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