I just tried this with phtoshop 6 and got files of the same size. I'm not sure why I'm suddenly having this problem. Must be bad karma. . . .
Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/19/03 01:14PM >>> > > business charting software (the best around from reports I'd read), and kept > PP going under the new name of iGrafx but only up to version 10, and then > killed it because it was cannibilising sales from PhotoPaint. IOW they > threw the baby out with the bathwater. > > R.I.P. Picture Publisher. Count me as another fan of PP. I first started using it with PP4, I believe, and progressed through PP5, PP7, PP8, and finally PP10, which I still use as my primary image editor. I, too, find the PP clone tool by far the best of those I have tried - that's what has kept me with it. Unfortunately PP seems to have a problem with JPEGs from digital cameras - it can read them just fine, but if you try to write out another JPEG image (such as a re-sized verson for a thumbnail page) there's something wrong with the resulting image; Windows XP, for one, can't display it. I suspect it's something to do with EXIF tags - the image data is there, and can be read by several old (pre-EXIF) image utilities I own. If I create an intermediate file (such as a TIFF) first, the read that back and write it out as a JPEG there are no problems. As for the problems PP reports with TIFFs from other utilities: PP is correct. The TIFF spec states that the tags within an IFD must appear in numerically increasing order. Some image utilities violate this condition. Hand such an image to PP and it will complain about the out-of-order tags.
