Documentation on Standards Forum

Microsoft Extensions to TIFF?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:45:53 Z

This is a wishlist for a new spec, rather than a query on the existing specs.

Microsoft products sometimes put extra tags into TIFF documents, and of course older Microsoft Office versions produced MDI (which I think of as a TIFF variant) using the Microsoft Office Document Imaging Writer virtual printer.

Some initial investigations indicate three kinds of compression:
There are new kinds of image compression:
- MODI_BLC 34718
- MODI_PTC 34720
- MODI_VECTOR 34719

MODI_VECTOR appears to basically be Enhanced Metafile.

MODI_BLC and MODI_PTC are not understood.

In addition to the compression methods, there are unknown tags (fields). These unknown properties appear to occur in both TIFF and MDI files.

37679 - appears on every page, looks like the text version of the document contents. The content are 0x01 0x00, followed by a length (4 byte aka long) which is 6 bytes less than the actual length of this field (i.e. it is the remaining length), followed by the UTF8 text version. Each phrase is delimited by a space followed by a newline (0x20 0x0a aka ' \n'). The end is 0x0d 0x00.

37680 - only appears to occur on the first page, always appears to be length 4096, always starts with 0xd0 0xcf 0x11 0xe0 0xa1 0xb1 0x1a 0xe1, then a string of zeros, and then varies. Perhaps some kind of metadata dictionary? It is located at the end of the file, and there are 16-bit wide characters that look like "Root Entry", "CONTENTS" (sometimes more than once, even if only one page), "prop2" (sometimes more than once), "prop3" (somtimes more than once), "DICT", "Summary Information", "Owner" and some names. There might be some random stuff / fill in there too. Also appears to be a consistent bit of stuff "AuvsxjatP0udlw1Aaq5eubr5h" (this
might not be ASCII though - there is a 0x05 0x00 always on the front of it.

37681 - appears on every page, always stars with 0x02 0x00 (+ 0x00, 0x00?), then varies. Possibly the thumbnail image?

Would it be possible to get some clarification / confirmation on the compression methods and unknown tags (including any additional tags not yet found)? A spec would be idea, but given that MDI isn't so common and the preference to move to XPS, perhaps just some notes here?

Remote Control Specification

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:48:21 Z

I create new Remote Control Receiver for Media Center PC.
Help me to receive documents on which there is a reference in a file "MCPCdeploy.doc".

Media Center Remote Control Design Guide;
Remote Control Receiver (Beanbag) Schematic and BOM;
Remote Control Specification.

To receive these documents under the reference (BetaPlace website (https: // beta.microsoft.com) from a file "MCPCdeploy.doc" it was not possible.

My inquiry to the address remotemc@microsoft.com has remained without the answer.

Beforehand thanks!

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Convert word to Jpeg or TIFF files

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:54:49 Z

Using C# can we convert Doc file into Jpeg/Tiff(Not PDF).
First option is Jpeg.
Please suggest some solution for this..

[Office Open XML] New SmartArt diagram shape tree introduced in Office 2007 SP2

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:39:51 Z

Hello all,

Just a short question: when will the Office Open XML ECMA specification be updated to include information about the new SmartArt diagram shape tree (and associated tags) introduced in Office 2007 SP2?

Thanks!
- fwdev

NTFS documentation

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:09:54 Z

Is there any documentation for NTFS?
I have found some documentations on Internet, but they are not detailed enough. I would like to have details like the relationship between Data Runs and the checking bytes of update sequence in each sector.

Is it possible to provide this? Thanks.

hi The don`t send

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:29:32 Z

Hi,

I have a application for Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC with framework 3.5 and it gets a lot of this framework error dialog witch says that an error occurred in myApp.exe and it want to send it to Microsoft. You know, the dialog with a left button with caption "Don´t send" and right button with caption "Send".

I don´t understand why I get this while I have Try/Catch everywhere in my code and I also have a global routine that logs the exception to a xml file datatable and send this to a webservice.

The details for the error does not show any stack info and I don´t understand the detail it want to send to Microsoft.

Does anyone has any idea how I can track this down?

NTLM Authentication, Part Server / Domain Controller

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:36:00 Z

Dear members,

in the document http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa378749.aspx# is described how the NTLM authentication works. We have our own client (written in java) and a server with api for autehtication. The server has all the necessary data for authentication (see below).

The question: how to send

User name
Challenge sent to the client
Response received from the client

to the domain controller ? Is there any libraries (perhaps in java) or is there a description how to build the request (http ?).

Thanks in advance,

Michel

Test thread

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:06:00 Z

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Technical documentation links don't resolve in Adobe Reader 9

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:50:01 Z

This is a change introduced by Adobe, which has altered the default setting for view mode in Adobe Reader 9. In order to access links, users need to change their settings so that the document is not in view mode. In Adobe Reader 9, go to the Edit menu and click Preferences. In the Categories list, click Documents. Under PDF/A View Mode, change the selection from Only for PDF/A documents to Never, and click OK.

Additional details on changing the setting can be located via the Adobe help site: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Standard/WS3E0E8467-B787-4020-A1D3-6BC762A42DF2.w.html