At 5:27 PM -0600 11/20/01, Ron Nossaman wrote: >That JASA article I mentioned went into better detail, and the patent text >is considerably more detailed than either. If you can actually get a look >at it. > >I installed a plug in for the new Tiff standard a couple of years ago when >I had the same problem. Try this: http://www.alternatiff.com/ I'm >running Netscape, but I assume it will work with IE. I hope. If not, let me >know and I'll see if I can pull them into anything else I have here and >convert them to something friendlier. No luck so far. I clicked the help button at uspto and there they admit that their files are unreadable by all human software (I'm afraid my opinions of Netscape are unprintable!). I've downloaded 7 megabyte of the latest QuickTime for the Mac and the result is no better, and they recommend alternatiff for use on Windows. What a mess! I've wasted hours. I guess the British Patent Office started later and got things right from the start because their site is extremely fast and displays images of the older patents at a very impressive rate - just as jpegs I think. If you can find a way of sending me the images, I'll scan them into an OCR program and let the list have a text version, but don't go out of your way. JD
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