Hi! ======= On Wednesday 14 March 2007, you wrote: ======= ... > When you say "can not open" is there some kind of error message > associated with it? > > I've not had any issues with TIFF files (though admittedly I rarely need > to open any), but I would guess if it's only "some" files then it may be > that the program that generated them uses a non-standard/incompatible > format. It's hard to say without an actual error message. I've found > ImageMagick's identify(1) command to be very helpful with determining if > a file is indeed the format the creator claims it to be. > > -- > Albert W. Hopkins >
All programs says about bad format. You are right, only some rare TIFF files can not be opened. I use IrfanView (as it is at least free) under wine to see such files. 'identify' for last problem file output is (and GIMP says approximately the same): identify rodnik.tif identify: rodnik.tif: unknown field with tag 513 (0x201) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory'. identify: rodnik.tif: unknown field with tag 514 (0x202) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory'. identify: rodnik.tif: unknown field with tag 37679 (0x932f) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory'. identify: rodnik.tif: unknown field with tag 37680 (0x9330) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory'. identify: rodnik.tif: unknown field with tag 37681 (0x9331) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory'. identify: Invalid YCbCr subsampling. `rodnik.tif'. identify: rodnik.tif: cannot handle zero strip size. `TIFFReadDirectory'. IrfanView shows the file without problems. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
