"(Ted Harding)" wrote:

well sweet memories to the pre SAMBA days at work. In my case, the TIFFs looked partly well and sudden broken. Further investigation showed a difference in filesize. Further more, I learned that unix people are both clever and lazy. One system is Unix, the other DOS/Windows. FTP knows this as soon as you login. This switches the transfer mode to "ascii". For that reason Unix LF's are translated to CR/LF on transfer. That explains the different filesizes. It took me a few days to find out, that there is a "binary" transfer mode as well. First thing on ftp, is to type "binary". Hope this is the cure.... Juergen

Hi Folks,

I have a TIFF problem. It may be a problem that arose during ftp of the file, but for the moment I'm assuming it isn't.

The original file was saved as a TIFF image by a friend's scanner software. He then opened it Adobe PhotoShop, adjusted the colours, and saved it back as a TIFF. (All Win-98 stuff, this).

Then I pulled it over to my SuSE 6.3 system.

None of the image software that I have on Linux will accept this file -- not 'xv', nor ImageMagick's 'display', nor the GIMP. The program 'tiffcheck' gives the result

rollo.tif: Warning, unknown field with tag 769 (0x301) ignored. rollo.tif: Warning, unknown field with tag 769 (0x301) ignored. rollo.tif: Warning, unknown field with tag 1025 (0x401) ignored. rollo.tif: Warning, unknown field with tag 1281 (0x501) ignored. rollo.tif: Warning, unknown field with tag 1281 (0x501) ignored. rollo.tif: Warning, unknown field with tag 769 (0x301) ignored. rollo.tif: Warning, unknown field with tag 769 (0x301) ignored. rollo.tif: Warning, unknown field with tag 390 (0x186) ignored. rollo.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field "BitsPerSample" (3, expecting 1); tag ignored. REJECT Document is not valid TIFF (unspecified format error)

which is consistent with error messages from other programs.

Now I have had a similar problem before with a TIFF file which came as a test file with some OCR software. So it may be that the TIFF file is non-standard or "extended" in a way which the Linux software won't accept.

So: Does anyone have experience of solving this kind of problem using Linux?

All suggestions gratefully received.

With thanks, Ted.

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