Comments on: Quicktime and a decompressor are needed to see this picture http://www.geekrant.org/2008/05/15/quicktime-picture-error/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:44:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://www.geekrant.org/2008/05/15/quicktime-picture-error/comment-page-1/#comment-9402 Anonymous Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:31:49 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/2008/05/15/quicktime-picture-error/#comment-9402 Blame Microsoft? It has been the standard for more than 2 decades, and instead of making things easier and compatible, Apple had to screw things up. Blame Microsoft? It has been the standard for more than 2 decades, and instead of making things easier and compatible, Apple had to screw things up.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.geekrant.org/2008/05/15/quicktime-picture-error/comment-page-1/#comment-9344 Anonymous Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:58:53 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/2008/05/15/quicktime-picture-error/#comment-9344 quick time and a decompressor WERE needed to see this picture ! quick time and a decompressor WERE needed to see this picture !

]]> By: daniel http://www.geekrant.org/2008/05/15/quicktime-picture-error/comment-page-1/#comment-7315 daniel Wed, 21 May 2008 11:51:48 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/2008/05/15/quicktime-picture-error/#comment-7315 Thanks for explaining it Rob. Apart from a fix on the Mac, it would help if MS Word on Windows would allow the object to be opened by an external program. Compressed TIFFs can be opened by a number of programs, even if WinWord itself can't handle them. Thanks for explaining it Rob.

Apart from a fix on the Mac, it would help if MS Word on Windows would allow the object to be opened by an external program. Compressed TIFFs can be opened by a number of programs, even if WinWord itself can’t handle them.

]]> By: Rob http://www.geekrant.org/2008/05/15/quicktime-picture-error/comment-page-1/#comment-7314 Rob Tue, 20 May 2008 00:52:53 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/2008/05/15/quicktime-picture-error/#comment-7314 This has been a problem for ages, and is the result of the Mac clipboard using compressed tiff to store images (so if you drag/drop or copy/paste your image, regardless of original format, it gets converted by the OS). Since Mac Office stores the image in the format in which it gets it, you get compressed tiffs in your documents. Windows Office can't handle them (even if it can handle normal, uncompressed tiff files). However, latest Office SP1 for Mac (released last week on the Microsoft Mac site) finally has a fix, after _years_ of people complaining about it, and at least two versions of Office. This has been a problem for ages, and is the result of the Mac clipboard using compressed tiff to store images (so if you drag/drop or copy/paste your image, regardless of original format, it gets converted by the OS). Since Mac Office stores the image in the format in which it gets it, you get compressed tiffs in your documents. Windows Office can’t handle them (even if it can handle normal, uncompressed tiff files).

However, latest Office SP1 for Mac (released last week on the Microsoft Mac site) finally has a fix, after _years_ of people complaining about it, and at least two versions of Office.

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