USPTO: drawings show only partially or not at all

Oct 05, 2005 6 Replies

I use Firefox with AlternaTIFF plug-in (free IIRC). I also recently bought TIFF Combine (charged-off to a lawya I'm doing patent searches for :-)

TIFF Combine appends all the TIFF pages into a single document, which I then (typically) print to a PDF.

...Jim Thompson

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...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Hello All,



When clicking on drawings after finding a patent on the USPTO server the correct page comes up. Sometimes it starts to load a drawing but stops after 20% or so. Other times the area where the drawing used to show up remains blank. I am using Mozilla.



Do you have similar problems? How can one get at the dawings without using their user interface?



Regards, Joerg



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Hello Jim,

Thanks. The first one is what USPTO suggested, I am just a bit skittish downloading *.exe stuff from the web. But that one seems to be safe. I was just puzzled that my browser sometimes does load the pics, and sometimes doesn't.

Do you remember the vendor? Via Google I only found a myriad of "shareware" sites for it and I am certainly not going to download anything from there. Plus it might not be legal copies, who knows.

Regards, Joerg

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thanks Jim

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martin

Hello Jim,

Thank you. That one actually had come up via Google but because it contained "cool" I had mentally grouped it into the wrong crowd.

Regards, Joerg

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the Debian package is called "libtiff-tools". I'm sure there's a Windows version out there somewhere.

robert

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