Word '97 Can't read Office 2003 mdi or TIFF file format!

[O5O]

Okay.. We got Office 2003 at school where I created these TIFF files using
the MS Office mdi page writer with the lossless compression "for
compatability with more older programs" selected. The problem is that my
Office 97 Word program at home can't seem to read the "compatable" mdi tiff
format.

Anybody know how to get Word '97 up to speed with the mdi tiff files?
And does anybody know why it saves it as a TIFF file, but has a jpeg option
for formatting as the default instead of the compatable format?

Is there anyway to get the MDI jpeg format saved as a .jpg file instead of
..tif?

And for multipage files, how can I save each page individually as a .jpg
file so that Word '97 can read 'em?

Apparently when I first created the files, the lossey jpeg formatting was
selected. However I went back, reopened the TIFF files, and switched to the
lossless "more compatable" format and "saved-as" the images overwriting the
original filenames.

The error I get from Word '97 Insert->Picture->From
File->SayboltChart.tif(Preview not available)->Insert->Tagged Image File
Format->OK is "An error occurred while importing this file.
c:\...\SayboltChart.tif."

You can find the two tif files here:

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/Classes/2006-04-Fall/ME-313L-Xue/Exp-5/SayboltChart.tif

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/Classes/2006-04-Fall/ME-313L-Xue/Exp-5/data.tif

BTW I tried every conversion type available to word '97 besides "Tagged
Image File Format," to include "Windows Enhanced Metafile," "Windows
Metafile," "JPEG File Interchange Format," "Portable Network Graphics,"
"Windows Bitmap," "Corel Draw," "Computer Graphics Metafile," "Micrografx
Designer /Draw," "AutoCAD Format 2-D," "Encapsulated PostScript," "GIF,"
"Kodak Photo CD," "PC Paintbrush," "Macintosh PICT," "Targa," and
"WordPerfect Graphics."

None of them worked. They all give the same error message as stated above.

What part of the word "Compatable" do I not understand?

TIA

--
Christopher R. Thompson
Student of Mechanical Engineering
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
CSUHome: http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/
MyHome: http://christoffur.hopto.org/
Email: mailto:[email protected]

 

[macropod]

Hi ,

Your 'SayboltChart.tif' file is actually a jpeg image, despite the '.tif'
extension. Even so, the file's format is incompatible with Word 2000 as well
and simply changing the extension isn't sufficient to get it to work. This
may represent nothing much more than older versions of MS Office not having
the filters for this particular version of the jpeg format. You could
probably make the file compatible with Word 97 by opening the file in an
image editor (eg MS Imaging) and re-saving it - with the correct extension.
It worked for me with Word 2000.

The other thing to be aware of is that Word doesn't support multi-page
graphics files. To get anything more than the first page of such files to
display in Word, you'd have to save the individual pages as separate files
and use those.

Cheers

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Christopher,

MS doesn't provide a capability to work with .MDI files outside of Word 2003 and Word 2007.

Both of the TIF files (the single and multipage ones) opened in Irfanview v3.98 (http://irfanview.com) Irfanview can also separate
the individual pages of the multipage TIFF so they can be used through Insert=>Picture=>From File in Word 97.

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Okay.. We got Office 2003 at school where I created these TIFF files using
the MS Office mdi page writer with the lossless compression "for
compatability with more older programs" selected. The problem is that my
Office 97 Word program at home can't seem to read the "compatable" mdi tiff
format.

Anybody know how to get Word '97 up to speed with the mdi tiff files?
And does anybody know why it saves it as a TIFF file, but has a jpeg option
for formatting as the default instead of the compatable format?

Is there anyway to get the MDI jpeg format saved as a .jpg file instead of
..tif?

And for multipage files, how can I save each page individually as a .jpg
file so that Word '97 can read 'em?

Apparently when I first created the files, the lossey jpeg formatting was
selected. However I went back, reopened the TIFF files, and switched to the
lossless "more compatable" format and "saved-as" the images overwriting the
original filenames.

The error I get from Word '97 Insert->Picture->From
File->SayboltChart.tif(Preview not available)->Insert->Tagged Image File
Format->OK is "An error occurred while importing this file.
c:\...\SayboltChart.tif."

You can find the two tif files here:

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/Classes/2006-04-Fall/ME-313L-Xue/Exp-5/SayboltChart.tif

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/Classes/2006-04-Fall/ME-313L-Xue/Exp-5/data.tif

BTW I tried every conversion type available to word '97 besides "Tagged
Image File Format," to include "Windows Enhanced Metafile," "Windows
Metafile," "JPEG File Interchange Format," "Portable Network Graphics,"
"Windows Bitmap," "Corel Draw," "Computer Graphics Metafile," "Micrografx
Designer /Draw," "AutoCAD Format 2-D," "Encapsulated PostScript," "GIF,"
"Kodak Photo CD," "PC Paintbrush," "Macintosh PICT," "Targa," and
"WordPerfect Graphics."

None of them worked. They all give the same error message as stated above.

What part of the word "Compatable" do I not understand?

TIA

--
Christopher R. Thompson >>

--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Christoffur050]

Ok thanks... I got all three pages of my data.tif file into my word doc
ok now. Thanks again.

Chris.