Jean-Louis:

>"tif" files are not meant to be read by word processors, but they are images
>(the pages have been scanned). I have tried to view them with the various
>computers of the university: it works with Suns and PCs, but for some reason I
>couldn't view them with Macs (I am not an expert in Macs,so perhaps someone
>could help?).

For Macintosh users, I've been able to view these tiff files with
GraphicsConverter 2.9.1. They can then be exported to a any Mac-compatible
graphics file format.

Thanx, -jo-