We've compressed the images all we can, while retaining their quality, but downloading them can take a little while. We're working on a CD-ROM version that will hopefully speed things up for you. Meantime, we suggest that if you're an editor on deadline, you use that time to paste up an ad or make a new pot of coffee. It won't actually speed up your modem, but it will make the time pass more quickly. TIFF files are high resolution images which can be imported directly into page layout programs such as Adobe PageMaker or Quark XPress.
TIFFs are kinda big and can take a while to download.
PDFs, on the other hand, are cleverly compressed, high resolution images which download faster and can be viewed and printed from Adobe 's free Acrobat Reader program. And yes, PDFs and Acrobat files are two different names for the same file type. I recently have run into a problem downloading Barry's cartoons on Adobe Acrobat via Barry's emails. I used to be able to click on the attachment, it would go to Adobe and I printed the toons. I have tried rebuilding my desktop but nothing seems to work.