Richard & Stephanie Sipe

Doing anything productive with a multi page tiff document is difficult. Windows Picture Viewer does a great job at displaying and printing the multiple page tiff but that is where the productivity ends. I had scanned an article using a multi function copy/san/print machine which scans documents to email. This one happend to scan the document to a multiple page tiff. Some quick looking on the interwebs found a few tiff splitting programs. One of which I found for free on download.com and which crashed with no functionality.

Here is my hack for splitting a multiple page tiff into single images. Warning, this is ugly but functional. First off you must have Adobe Acrobat PDF Creator and some kind of image editor.

1) Right Click on the Multi-Page .Tiff Document and Select Convert to Adobe PDF
2) Open the created PDF File.
3) Using the Graphic Select Tool Draw a Square around one of the Pages
4) Select Copy from the Edit Menu or press Control-C (Apple-C on a Mac)
5) Paste this into your graphic editor of choice
6) Rinse and Repeat for the other pages in yoru Multi-Page Tiff

I am not sure why Adobe Acrobat Creator understands Multiple Page Tiffs and Adobe Photoshop doesn’t but this hack at least worked for me. If you know how to get to the extra pages using just Adobe Photoshop or even the CorelDraw suite then let me know.

              

After installing osCommerce most users will get the following warning on the top of their newly created store main page:

Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: /[SERVER_FILE_LOCATION]/catalog/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file.

It is a pretty specific error with an obtuse solution in the warning message. Upon searching many recommendations are to chmod the file to 666 but sadly this still provides write access to the file and the error remains.

The solution to the write to configure.php warning
Set the file to permissions of 444 which is the equivalent of RRR or Owner-Read ; Group-Read ; Others-Read using your favorite FTP program.

For those of you on a MAC using a FTP program such as FETCH you will need to Command Click (Right Click if you have a right mouse button) and then select Get Info. From there you can set the check boxes or type in 444 and change the file permissions.

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