Black Ice Tiff Viewer
Black Ice Tiff Viewer
For Windows 11/10/8/7 (32 and 64bit)
User's Guide
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Table of Contents
Supported Operating Systems and Installations
Installation, Licensing and Registration
Registering the Product as Release (requires serial number provided during purchase)
Registering the TIFF Viewer with transferable license
Registering through a Proxy server
Manually registering the TIFF Viewer Demo during installation
Manually registering the TIFF Viewer Demo
Manually registering the TIFF Viewer Release during installation
Manually registering the TIFF Viewer Release (purchased version)
Modifying the registration port
What to do when the Licenses are Exhausted
Purchasing an Additional License for Tiff Viewer
How do I know if TIFF Viewer is registered with transferable license?
Upgrading transferable license to regular (static) license
Upgrading regular (static) license to transferable license
Moving transferable license to another computer
Registration error (Error code 35)
Registration error (Error code 55)
Registration error (Error code 56)
Registration error (Error code 57)
Registration error (Error code 68)
Registration error (Error code 100)
The evaluation version of TIFF Viewer is expired
Installing the OCR Language Pack for TIFF Viewer
Publishing TIFF Viewer with Citrix XenApp
Publishing TIFF Viewer from Citrix XenApp Server
Enable/disable Tiff Viewer features
Associating Files to be Opened with the TIFF Viewer
Setting file associations the first time TIFF Viewer runs
Setting file associations using the TIFF Viewer options
Setting file association by right-clicking on a file
Setting file associations using the Windows Default App window
Saving Changes to an Image File
Saving a TIFF File to Use Different compression
Saving an Image File as a Different Image Format
Password protect PDF documents
Viewing Multipage Tiff files in Thumbnail
Send OCR text to default web browser
How to send the document in email?
Getting Information about a File
Deskewing Image Using Custom Angle
Copy or Move Pages from one document to another
Configure the default file association on Windows 11 and 10 with Group Policy
Configuring default viewer on Windows Server 2022, 2019 and 2016 using Group Policy
Description of the INI File Values
INI File Values on the Tiff Viewer user interface
Using the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extension
Enable or disable the extension in Google Chrome
How to install the TIFF Viewer Browser Extension for Microsoft Edge
Enable or disable the extension in Microsoft Edge
Installing the TIFF Viewer Chrome / Edge extension without an active internet connection
Opening files without downloading
Enable opening PDF documents in the TIFF Viewer browser extension
Enable PDF opening in Edge/Chrome extension through Group Policy deployment
Password protect PDF documents
Adding Annotations to a Tiff Document
Embed the Tiff Viewer Chrome and Edge extension on your website
GPO deployment of the Tiff Viewer Chrome extension
Install the Tiff Viewer without the Chrome extension
Install the Tiff Viewer with interactive installer
Install the Tiff Viewer with MSI installer
Download and install the administrative templates in Group Policy Management
Install the Tiff Viewer Chrome extension for Google Chrome
Install the Tiff Viewer Chrome extension for Google Chrome without an internet connection
Install the Tiff Viewer Chrome extension for Microsoft Edge
Install the Tiff Viewer Chrome extension for Microsoft Edge without an internet connection
Preconfigure the TIFF Viewer Chrome / Edge extension using MSI installers
Configure TIFF Viewer Chrome / Edge PDF opening feature through Group Policy
Error Code 1: Access to the native messaging host was disabled by the system administrator
Customization of the TIFF Viewer Chrome/Edge extension
How to edit the TIFF Viewer Chrome/Edge extension configuration XML file
How to preconfigure the TIFF Viewer Chrome/Edge extension during MSI installation
Force Default Settings in the Edge/Chrome extension for every user
Opening files with the TIFF Viewer extension in a new browser tab
How to open each file on a new tab
Detecting if TIFF Viewer extension is installed – Message Passing API
Using the TIFF Viewer Core web application
Starting and Closing the TIFF Viewer Core
Enable opening PDF documents in the TIFF Viewer Core
Enable PDF opening in TIFF Viewer Core through Group Policy deployment
Password protect PDF documents
Adding Annotations to a Tiff Document
Embed the TIFF Viewer Core on your website
GPO deployment of the TIFF Viewer Core
Install the Tiff Viewer with interactive installer
Install the Tiff Viewer with MSI installer
Preconfigure the TIFF Viewer Core using MSI installers
Configure the PDF opening feature of the TIFF Viewer Core through Group Policy
Customization of the TIFF Viewer Core
How to edit the TIFF Viewer Core configuration XML file
How to preconfigure the TIFF Viewer Core during MSI installation
Force Default Settings in the TIFF Viewer Core for every user
Opening files with the TIFF Viewer Core in a new browser tab
How to force open each file on a new tab
Using the Microsoft IE Browser Plug-In
Enabling/Disabling Browser Plug-In
Supported File Formats and MIME Types
Open TIFF files in the same browser Tab every time
Send Email with the Browser Plug-In
Getting Information about TIFF Files
The Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-in INI file
The Tiff Viewer extension is not installed, how do I install it manually?
Tiff files are being downloaded, instead of opened in the Tiff Viewer extension in Chrome or Edge
Automatically delete Tiff files after being downloaded
The Tiff Viewer extension setting changes are not applied
Error opening a PDF document in the Chrome / Edge extension
TIFF Viewer Chrome / Edge extension suddenly removed from domain computers
Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-In is not working