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I usually use Irfanview and I need to protect a tiff image so that it can’t be edited or changed. But I can’t find a way that’s native to XP2 and I don’t want to convert it to pdf, it has to be a tiff.

The stupid Irfanview forum won’t let me join because it actively blocks spammers. So what? Why does it think I am a spammer?

Anyway, any advice on how to protect tiff files?

Cheers

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Welcome to the Lounge!!

1.) You might be blocked because of the ISP you use. Some ISPs have a reputation for hosting spammers or the ISP could’ve gotten on a block list. You should contact your ISP about this.

2.) From what I can find out there is nothing in the TIFF specification for managing the update rights. The only thing I’ve seen is change it to a non-changable file format such as PDF or ZIP. If you ZIP it than you can password protect the ZIP file.

Joe

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Well, I’m at work with a huge network and big network admin department, firewalls and all sorts, so we shouldn’t be mistaken for spammers. But the e-mail I used was my personal Yahoo address. Could it be that?

What’s even more stupid is that they say to use the Contact Us link if I am not a spammer but there’s no link anywhere!

Anyway, shame about the tiffs. I have to make an image that can’t be modified available on a web site but it has to be in tiff format to be usable at the other end.

Cheers

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Well, I’m at work with a huge network and big network admin department,

Have them come up with a way to “lock” your .tiff files.
Maybe you could trade in one slightly used, but not very useful, IT person for a good software package?

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Any idea why it has to be “locked”? Copy right protection or something similar? If so, its an issue that photographers both professional and amatuer have been wrestling with in the digital age. Not much you can do in that case.

Have them come up with a way to “lock” your .tiff files.
Maybe you could trade in one slightly used, but not very useful, IT person for a good software package?

Hmm… I hope this is being said with “tongue in cheek”. I’ve never heard of “locking” a .tiff or any other image format for that matter. By their nature they are editable files.

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Have them come up with a way to “lock” your .tiff files.
Maybe you could trade in one slightly used, but not very useful, IT person for a good software package?

Hmm… I hope this is being said with “tongue in cheek”. I’ve never heard of “locking” a .tiff or any other image format for that matter. By their nature they are editable files.

Yes it is. I cannot get my sense of humor to update, it is still running in DOS 2.1.

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Yes it is. I cannot get my sense of humor to update, it is still running in DOS 2.1.

Sometimes I wish I was still using DOS. At least when there was a problem it was usually pretty straight forward.

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Strictly speaking there is no such thing as a non-modifiable image. You could add a digital signature to the image, but that would need specialized software to read and compare, and only tells you if the image has been changed.

cheers, Paul

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Cheers, Paul.

I’m sure I replied to RussB as well but it’s disappeared.

I’ve sent the problem to the IT department. I don’t think it matters if it’s lockable or not but the boss (who doesn’t actually know much about this stuff) said it had to be.

We’ll see.

Cheers

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It’s just got to be uneditable.

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It’s just got to be uneditable.

For any image, all someone needs to do is Print Screen then paste into MS Paint, and the image can be edited. Tell your boss.

You can mess about with backgrounds so that any simple edits are obvious, but there’s no absolute way of preventing edits.

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Well, I already kind of did before my first post, but I thought I’d ask around in case anyone knew of a way to make them secure.

I’ll see what the IT bods say.

Cheers

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I’ll see what the IT bods say

If you are expecting a different answer you will be disappointed. ;-))

cheers, Paul

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