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by fzabin 1 view

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I received an e-mail with that has three TIFF files attached. When I attempted to open one of the files, Adobe Photo Deluxe Business Edition opened and I received the following message: "Could not open 'cd list.TIF' because the TIFF file uses an unsupported compression method." How can I view the contents of the attachments?

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by stillatit

First choice -- ask the person who sent the files to you how to view them.

Second choice -- TIFF allows the file creator to specify what the data looks like (The T stands for "tagged", and there are vendor-specific tags as well as standard ones.). If the files are supposed to be something viewable, try saving them to disk and opening or importing them in various programs (Explorer, Word, and any graphics package you can find). Note that sometimes an import works when an open will not.

Itmay very well be the case that only some specialized hardware/software can view the file -- for example one company I used to work for would put a TIFF header on a file which was bitmap data for an imagesetter.

Good luck.

by fzabin

Thank you very much. Your response was very helpful. Apparently I have several graphics programs. I tried them all and was finally able to open the files in Microsoft Photo Editor. Thank again!

by magetower

Save the files to disk first then (if you have it) look in Start/Programs/Accessories for Imaging. This is a program available with windows to view imaging files such as TIFFs.

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