On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:45:47 -0400, "Wild_Bill"
wrote:

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The Goog results allow everything to be viewed (PDF format), where the uspto
site requires the installation of a downloaded viewer (I guess), and the
datamp.org site didn't have any info about the tool onsite, but provided a
link to the uspto site.

Hi WB,

I'm glad it helped you out. Rob (from "What is it?") clued
me into the Datamp site. It can be quite helpful at times.

The US Patent site has all of its older (pre 1976) patents
in tiff image format. If you just download the image and
save it as a .tiff (or .tif) file they can be viewed with
Irfanview, Xnview or use whatever your favorite graphics
viewer might be.

If you are at the US Patent site and sitting on their page
where you should be seeing an image, you can try this
Bookmarklet which should reveal the tif file link and make
it clickable (so you can save the tif file). Save everything
except the first greater than symbol as a bookmark. There
shouldn't be any returns, it is all on one long line.

====
javascript:eikE=document.getElementsByTagName('em bed');for(eikI=0,eikL='';eikIeikE.length;eikI++)w ith(eikE[eikI])eikL+=getAttribute('type').toLowerCase()==='image/tiff'?'[a href="'+getAttribute('src')+'"Link/a] '+getAttribute('src')+"\n":'';void(document.body.i nnerHTML+='p style="position:fixed;z-index:10;top:10em;left:20%;width:70%;background:#f f8;color:#000;font:menu;padding:1em;border:#000 solid 2px;"'+eikL+'/p')
====

You need to have java script (not Java) enabled and the page
in question already loaded/displayed. Then click on this
bookmark and the current page should be modified, revealing
the tif file link embedded in it. I've only tested this
using the Opera browser. Eik did the heavy work creating it
and I only made some slight mods to better suit me.

If all this has your head spinning, stick with the pdf
option at google (grin).

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Leon Fisk
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