quicktime and tiff uncompressed decompressor

#Quicktime and tiff uncompressed decompressor mac os x
#Quicktime and tiff uncompressed decompressor manuals
#Quicktime and tiff uncompressed decompressor Pc

#Quicktime and tiff uncompressed decompressor manuals

I have racked my brains about this for ages and while I am a Mac user and produce things like Organisational Policy type Manuals which are heavily formatted and cross-referenced on the Mac, some of my Windows using Clients complained about this. Microsoft, with its billions of dollars, and supposedly the largest Mac development team in the world outside of Apple, can't figure out how!? I await the release of Office Mac 2008 to see if MS has done anything to resolve this serious issue. A *FREE* replacement to MS Office, which relies significantly on volunteer developers, can save MS Office documents with pasted graphics from a Mac just fine. The tests are in this post here: (links to Google Groups) However, this does not excuse Microsoft for not doing an automatic conversion when pasting graphics from Cocoa apps into Office applications, and definitely doesn't excuse them for not showing some warning in the 'compatibility checker.' Consider NeoOffice, a free 'Mac-ified' implementation of the open-source Open Office: it has no problems saving Office files with pasted graphics. Tests done by 'Tarken' in the thread showed that copying *from* a Carbon program to an Office app allowed it to open in Windows fine, but copying from, say Preview or Safari, did not. Unfortunately, Carbon and Cocoa copy graphics to the clipboard differently. Carbon allowed for easy porting of older 'Mac Classic' apps, while Cocoa was (theoretically) if you wanted to design a new one from scratch.

#Quicktime and tiff uncompressed decompressor mac os x

Basically, Mac OS X programs are built using one of two frameworks, Cocoa and Carbon. Some guys did an analysis on this back in 2004 conclusion seems to be that both Apple and MS are responsible.

#Quicktime and tiff uncompressed decompressor Pc

The solution would be for Apple to either include the Quicktime TIFF decompressor in the PC version of Quicktime or, even better, not change the file format when copied into the clipboard in the first place. When I copy an image into the clipboard on a PC the PC doesn't change the file format. Since the pictures are not going into the clipboard they are not changing file format. So, on a MAC, this is why saving the picture to the hard drive then inserting them into the PPT works. This would be fine if Quicktime for the PC included the ability to decompress a Quicktime TIFF but it doesn't. This tells me that the MAC is doing something to the pictures that the PC is not.Īfter some investigation into this I found out that the problem is when you copy the picture into the clipboard on a MAC the MAC converts the image from whatever file format it was into a Quicktime TIFF. If I create the PPT on a MAC it will work fine on MAC's but not on PC's. If I create the PPT on a PC it will work fine on both a PC and a MAC. It appears that this is not a Microsoft problem but an Apple problem.