Thanks to everyone who's sent such helpful information.  The problem with
the images has been resolved.  It was the space in the file names that made
NN choke.  As far as the forms, we had the person doing the site convert to
PDF and all is now well.

Thanks again!
Vickey


On Fri, 19 May 2000 13:22:49 -0400, hgquinn(at)attglobal.net wrote:

>  Since the images in question were creted on the Mac, it makes sense that
you would
>  see them.
>  
>  NN 4.7 in Win 98 doesn't see them.
>  
>  There may be issues with file naming, as non-standard file naming
conventions were
>  used (in particular, some server OS's can't handle spaces or parentheses,
both of
>  which were used for some image names).
>  
>  It's also possible that the Mac-created image files were not prepared for
service
>  from a Win NT environment to a Win browser app.
>  
>  The latter issue would explain why the images appear to work on a Mac
platform,
>  and in the Win MS browser app (Win IE), but not in the Win Netscape
browser app.
>  
>  THe latter issue would also explain why when the images are clicked on
with Win
>  IE, Win IE opens an entirely new window for the image -- it's having to
decode the
>  MAC image file (drop the app fork, perhaps interpret some different
encoding,
>  don't know the details, not being a Mac person).
>  
>  Honeywebster(at)aol.com wrote:
>  
>  > I will tell you my experience with your site. I think to understand it
better
>  > for us out here, give us an exact example of which graphic(s) don't
load and
>  > on which page(s). Only give a couple of examples in each category. I
will
>  > look at the code.
>  >
>  > I saw it in AOL 4.0 and Netscape 4.6 on a Mac.
>  >
>  > AOL (an IE hybrid browser) - didn't see any missing graphics.
>  > Netscape - didn't see any missing graphics.
>  > Went to what was labeled a form. In AOL, got a downloadable .doc file.
>  > Couldn't get it in Netscape. Said that html was not locatable.
>  >
>  > Even if I download the .doc file, I probably won't be able to open it.
These
>  > files should be in .pdf format (if it is something someone wants to
print out
>  > and/or read and submit by mail) or an actual form (cgi/perl) that can
be
>  > filled out online and by pressing a submit button will return the
results by
>  > email. Adobe Acrobat can create the .pdf and it only takes the Acrobat
Reader
>  > to read (freeware).
>  >
>  > You can actually create the .pdf in one of many programs. The cheapest
is
>  > Adobe Acrobat (about $120 or less if you are associated with an
educational
>  > institution). Others that will work are Illustrator, Photoshop (altho
not
>  > great for long type documents), InDesign, PageMaker and probably Quark.
>  >
>  > There are sites to get the script for the cgi forms. But being you are
on an
>  > NT server, you should get the code to add from the systems manager at
Cornell.
>  >
>  > -Janet
>  
>  --
>  Heather Quinn
>  hgquinn(at)attglobal.net
>  http://pws.prserv.net/windyhill
>  
>  


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