He probably determined that it's a PNG file since GIMP automatically defaults to PNG during export?
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Liam R. E. Quin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 17:31 +0200, charneys wrote: >> I am new to GIMP and using version 2.8.14 on a Mac with Yosemite. If >> I want to >> convert an image to a tif file I use Save or Save as but do not get >> the tif >> option. If I go to Export, tif is an option. However when I use the >> tif option >> it saves the file as a png and NOT as a tif. > > Export is correct. > > How did you determine that you ended up with a PNG file? > > In Terminal you can try running the "file" command on it to see, e.g. > file my-left-foot.tif > (the last few letters of the filename, ".tif" here, can be anything, > and do not determine whether a file contains a TIFF or JPEG or PNG > image) > >> Help! Could you respond directly to >> me at [email protected] >> Thank you. > > (I think I can't sent mail to hotmail users from this account, hmm) > > Liam > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: [email protected] > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
