[ACFUG Discuss] CF 7 tif images

2009-06-04 Thread Ajas Mohammed
Hi, We have tif images stored in a directory and I was wondering whats the easy way to render them in a cfm page. I tried jpg and it works fine. When I right click and see properties for this image, I see Type as JPG file. When I try .tif file, I get an x mark and when i see properties I see type

[ACFUG Discuss] Re: CF 7 tif images

2009-06-04 Thread Ajas Mohammed
ok, I tried this cfcontent type=image/tif file=#thisPath#\test.TIF deletefile=no / tif doesnt show up but when i tried with 2 ff's, it works. i.e. cfcontent type=image/tiff file=#thisPath#\test.TIF deletefile=no / However, I would Like Internet Explorer to show the tif image in browser window

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: CF 7 tif images

2009-06-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ajas, I'll share my thoughts. I'm no expert in this subject, and things may have changed, so someone can counter my observations. First, the latter problem (of how files/pages opened via the browser open in an unexpected program) is normally a matter of configuring the browser to tell it how

re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: CF 7 tif images

2009-06-04 Thread Mischa Uppelschoten
If you're on CF8 and performance is not a big issue, you could use cfimage to read the tiff and then convert it to jpg... AFAIK, only the more obscure browsers natively support tiff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers#Image_format_support) so you'll be stuck with the