TIF images in Access 2003

We have converted an Access 2000 application over to Access 2003 and are testing the app on a new machine with only MS Office Professional 2003. In one of our forms we have an image object that displays the first page of a TIF file that a user can select from a list on the left. In Access 2000 this works fine. However in Access 2003 we keep getting this message -- ‘App Name’ doesn’t support the format of the file ‘File path\File Name.Tif,’ or file is too large. Try converting the file to BMP or GIF format --. We recreated a form with an image and noticed that the image object does have the file type ‘Tag Image File Format (*.tif)’. We tryed to reinstalled Office 2003 Professional but can’t find it under the Advanced Customization for the Office Shared Features | Converters and Filters | Graphic Filters | Tag Image File Format (*.tif). It is missing from the Office 2003 installation but it was included with Office 2000 and Office XP. We have also search thru the KB and have come up empty. We currently have a work around, but we wanted to see if there is a Fix or Patch to this limitation in Access 2003.

Any help would be appreciated.

Work around –

1) Place the TiffIM32.FLT into the following folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\GRPHFLT

2) We exported the following 2 registry keys from a machine with Access 2000/2002 and imported them into the new machine.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Import
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Export
Import Key (TiffImport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Import\TIFF]
"ExtensionsEx"="tif tiff"
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Import\TIFF\Filter API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Import\TIFF\Image API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Import\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"

Export Key (TiffExport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF]
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF\Filter API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF\Image API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"
"Quality"=dword:0000004b

We have converted an Access 2000 application over to Access 2003
and are testing the app on a new machine with only MS Office
Professional 2003. In one of our forms we have an image object
that displays the first page of a TIF file that a user can select
from a list on the left. In Access 2000 this works fine. However
in Access 2003 we keep getting this message -- ‘App Name’ doesn’t
support the format of the file ‘File path\File Name.Tif,’ or
file is too large. Try converting the file to BMP or GIF format --.
We recreated a form with an image and noticed that the image object
does have the file type ‘Tag Image File Format (*.tif)’. We
tryed to reinstalled Office 2003 Professional but can’t find it
under the Advanced Customization for the Office Shared Features
| Converters and Filters | Graphic Filters | Tag Image File Format
(*.tif). It is missing from the Office 2003 installation but
it was included with Office 2000 and Office XP. We have also
search thru the KB and have come up empty. We currently have
a work around, but we wanted to see if there is a Fix or Patch
to this limitation in Access 2003.

Any help would be appreciated.

Work around –

1) Place the TiffIM32.FLT into the following folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\GRPHFLT

2) We exported the following 2 registry keys from a machine with
Access 2000/2002 and imported them into the new machine.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Import
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Export
Import Key (TiffImport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF]
"ExtensionsEx"="tif tiff"
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF\Filter
API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF\Image
API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters
\Import\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"

Export Key (TiffExport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\
Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF]
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Filter API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Image API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"
"Quality"=dword:0000004b

--------------------
This article discusses this limitation with Office 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822346

The Office 2003 Resource Kit includes the Tiffim32.flt file.

You also have a legal issue. Whilst you can distribute the TiffIM32.FLT on
your workstations, this is not distributable with a runtime application.

Hope this helps,

--
Eric Cárdenas
Senior support professional

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I have to say that you have been misinformed Mr. Cardenas. The TIFF Filter has been removed from the Office 2003 Converter pack.

Quote: (from the link you provided)
Image filters
The following image filters are available to install from the Microsoft Office Converter Pack, based on the version of the Office program that you have installed:
Computer Graphics Metafile import filter (CGMimp32.FLT)
Corel Draw graphic import filter (CDRimp32.FLT)
Encapsulated PostScript import filter (EPSimp32.FLT)
Graphic Interchange Format import filter (GIFimp32.FLT)
JPEG graphic import filter (JPEGim32.FLT)
Macintosh PICT graphic import filter (PICTim32.FLT)
Portable Network Graphics import filter (PNG32.FLT)
WordPerfect Graphic import filter (WPGimp32.FLT)

The Office XP Legacy converter pack has the TIFF filter, and you can install it to Office 2003, but the XP pack is no longer available for download from MS.

"Eric Cárdenas [MSFT]" wrote:


We have converted an Access 2000 application over to Access 2003
and are testing the app on a new machine with only MS Office
Professional 2003. In one of our forms we have an image object
that displays the first page of a TIF file that a user can select
from a list on the left. In Access 2000 this works fine. However
in Access 2003 we keep getting this message -- ‘App Name’ doesn’t
support the format of the file ‘File path\File Name.Tif,’ or
file is too large. Try converting the file to BMP or GIF format --.
We recreated a form with an image and noticed that the image object
does have the file type ‘Tag Image File Format (*.tif)’. We
tryed to reinstalled Office 2003 Professional but can’t find it
under the Advanced Customization for the Office Shared Features
| Converters and Filters | Graphic Filters | Tag Image File Format
(*.tif). It is missing from the Office 2003 installation but
it was included with Office 2000 and Office XP. We have also
search thru the KB and have come up empty. We currently have
a work around, but we wanted to see if there is a Fix or Patch
to this limitation in Access 2003.

Any help would be appreciated.

Work around –

1) Place the TiffIM32.FLT into the following folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\GRPHFLT

2) We exported the following 2 registry keys from a machine with
Access 2000/2002 and imported them into the new machine.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Import
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Export
Import Key (TiffImport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF]
"ExtensionsEx"="tif tiff"
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF\Filter
API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF\Image
API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters
\Import\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"

Export Key (TiffExport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\
Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF]
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Filter API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Image API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"
"Quality"=dword:0000004b

--------------------
This article discusses this limitation with Office 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822346

The Office 2003 Resource Kit includes the Tiffim32.flt file.

You also have a legal issue. Whilst you can distribute the TiffIM32.FLT on
your workstations, this is not distributable with a runtime application.

Hope this helps,

--
Eric Cárdenas
Senior support professional

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Paul,

I searched Microsoft's web site for Office XP Legacy Converter Pack and I could not find it. The thread stopped so I'm not sure if this was the fix Chris was looking for.

Can you post the link to the Offie XP Legacy Converter Pack?

Thank you.

"Paul" wrote:

I have to say that you have been misinformed Mr. Cardenas. The TIFF Filter has been removed from the Office 2003 Converter pack.

Quote: (from the link you provided)
Image filters
The following image filters are available to install from the Microsoft Office Converter Pack, based on the version of the Office program that you have installed:
Computer Graphics Metafile import filter (CGMimp32.FLT)
Corel Draw graphic import filter (CDRimp32.FLT)
Encapsulated PostScript import filter (EPSimp32.FLT)
Graphic Interchange Format import filter (GIFimp32.FLT)
JPEG graphic import filter (JPEGim32.FLT)
Macintosh PICT graphic import filter (PICTim32.FLT)
Portable Network Graphics import filter (PNG32.FLT)
WordPerfect Graphic import filter (WPGimp32.FLT)

The Office XP Legacy converter pack has the TIFF filter, and you can install it to Office 2003, but the XP pack is no longer available for download from MS.

"Eric Cárdenas [MSFT]" wrote:


We have converted an Access 2000 application over to Access 2003
and are testing the app on a new machine with only MS Office
Professional 2003. In one of our forms we have an image object
that displays the first page of a TIF file that a user can select
from a list on the left. In Access 2000 this works fine. However
in Access 2003 we keep getting this message -- ‘App Name’ doesn’t
support the format of the file ‘File path\File Name.Tif,’ or
file is too large. Try converting the file to BMP or GIF format --.
We recreated a form with an image and noticed that the image object
does have the file type ‘Tag Image File Format (*.tif)’. We
tryed to reinstalled Office 2003 Professional but can’t find it
under the Advanced Customization for the Office Shared Features
| Converters and Filters | Graphic Filters | Tag Image File Format
(*.tif). It is missing from the Office 2003 installation but
it was included with Office 2000 and Office XP. We have also
search thru the KB and have come up empty. We currently have
a work around, but we wanted to see if there is a Fix or Patch
to this limitation in Access 2003.

Any help would be appreciated.

Work around –

1) Place the TiffIM32.FLT into the following folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\GRPHFLT

2) We exported the following 2 registry keys from a machine with
Access 2000/2002 and imported them into the new machine.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Import
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Export
Import Key (TiffImport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF]
"ExtensionsEx"="tif tiff"
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF\Filter
API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF\Image
API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters
\Import\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"

Export Key (TiffExport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\
Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF]
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Filter API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Image API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"
"Quality"=dword:0000004b

--------------------
This article discusses this limitation with Office 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822346

The Office 2003 Resource Kit includes the Tiffim32.flt file.

You also have a legal issue. Whilst you can distribute the TiffIM32.FLT on
your workstations, this is not distributable with a runtime application.

Hope this helps,

--
Eric Cárdenas
Senior support professional

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Eric,

This did not help. We are building the app for an internal project with everyone having MS Access 2003. I have searched high and low for this 'TiffIM32.FLT' file and have searched all of our MSDN disks. So far the only thing the works every time is the workaround I outlined in my original message.

Chris --

"Eric Cárdenas [MSFT]" wrote:


We have converted an Access 2000 application over to Access 2003
and are testing the app on a new machine with only MS Office
Professional 2003. In one of our forms we have an image object
that displays the first page of a TIF file that a user can select
from a list on the left. In Access 2000 this works fine. However
in Access 2003 we keep getting this message -- ‘App Name’ doesn’t
support the format of the file ‘File path\File Name.Tif,’ or
file is too large. Try converting the file to BMP or GIF format --.
We recreated a form with an image and noticed that the image object
does have the file type ‘Tag Image File Format (*.tif)’. We
tryed to reinstalled Office 2003 Professional but can’t find it
under the Advanced Customization for the Office Shared Features
| Converters and Filters | Graphic Filters | Tag Image File Format
(*.tif). It is missing from the Office 2003 installation but
it was included with Office 2000 and Office XP. We have also
search thru the KB and have come up empty. We currently have
a work around, but we wanted to see if there is a Fix or Patch
to this limitation in Access 2003.

Any help would be appreciated.

Work around –

1) Place the TiffIM32.FLT into the following folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\GRPHFLT

2) We exported the following 2 registry keys from a machine with
Access 2000/2002 and imported them into the new machine.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Import
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Export
Import Key (TiffImport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF]
"ExtensionsEx"="tif tiff"
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF\Filter
API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Import\TIFF\Image
API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters
\Import\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"

Export Key (TiffExport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\
Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF]
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Filter API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Image API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics
Filters\Export\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"
"Quality"=dword:0000004b

--------------------
This article discusses this limitation with Office 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822346

The Office 2003 Resource Kit includes the Tiffim32.flt file.

You also have a legal issue. Whilst you can distribute the TiffIM32.FLT on
your workstations, this is not distributable with a runtime application.

Hope this helps,

--
Eric Cárdenas
Senior support professional

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Dear Chris,

I am facing sam problem.
I test on two PCs with same OS (winXP Pro Sp1) and
in MSO 2003 Pro.

in One PC, I can see Tif image on Access Form.
But in another PC, I can't import Tif and Access msgbox told as you wrote.

I am wondering why.
Acutally the 2nd PC must be able to import TIF for I have something to do with.

Is there something I can do?

--
Zaw


"Chris" wrote:

We have converted an Access 2000 application over to Access 2003 and are testing the app on a new machine with only MS Office Professional 2003. In one of our forms we have an image object that displays the first page of a TIF file that a user can select from a list on the left. In Access 2000 this works fine. However in Access 2003 we keep getting this message -- ‘App Name’ doesn’t support the format of the file ‘File path\File Name.Tif,’ or file is too large. Try converting the file to BMP or GIF format --. We recreated a form with an image and noticed that the image object does have the file type ‘Tag Image File Format (*.tif)’. We tryed to reinstalled Office 2003 Professional but can’t find it under the Advanced Customization for the Office Shared Features | Converters and Filters | Graphic Filters | Tag Image File Format (*.tif). It is missing from the Office 2003 installation but it was included with Office 2000 and Office XP. We have also search thru the KB and have come up empty. We currently have a work around, but we wanted to see if there is a Fix or Patch to this limitation in Access 2003.

Any help would be appreciated.

Work around –

1) Place the TiffIM32.FLT into the following folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\GRPHFLT

2) We exported the following 2 registry keys from a machine with Access 2000/2002 and imported them into the new machine.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Import
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Graphics Filters\Export
Import Key (TiffImport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Import\TIFF]
"ExtensionsEx"="tif tiff"
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Import\TIFF\Filter API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Import\TIFF\Image API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Import\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"

Export Key (TiffExport.reg)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF]
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\ \TIFFIM32.FLT"
"Name"="Tag Image File Format"
"Extensions"="tif"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF\Filter API]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF\Image API]
"Time Stamp"=dword:01be2232
"Compression Type"=dword:00000080
"Black Is 0"="Yes"
"Description"=dword:00000007
"BiLevel"="1, 141, 1"
"GrayScale"="1672, 177, 1"
"Palette"="142, 177, 1"
"RGB"="128, 161, 3"
"RGB Planar"="128, 161, 3"
"Halftones"="No"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\TIFF\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"
"Quality"=dword:0000004b