On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:55:25 -0600, Joseph Tainter wrote: > 1. I saved the slide as a TIF file. Then PhotoPaint 8 wouldn't open it, > saying "Illegal Tag Value." I got this message with both 8 and 12 bit > scans. PhotoPaint 8 otherwise opens and saves TIF files just fine.
It sounds like one of them is not fully compliant with the TIFF 6 standard. If you go to http://www.adobe.com and search for "TIFF" and "Standard" you should find it. There used to also be a program there that would dump the tags in a TIFF file so you could see where the disagreement was occurring. The Nikon software could be creating technically illegal TIFF files, or PhotoPaint might not be up to date with the TIFF 6 standard (but it should be, the standard's been stable for more than the three years you've had the software) while the Nikon software is. > Using Conversions Plus, I converted the file to BMP. This lost half the > file size. (Does BMP not go beyond 8 bits?) But PhotoPaint 8 opened it > just fine. BMP goes to 24 bits, at least. Conversions Plus did something else with it, like maybe RLE compressing it. > Then using Hijaak, I opened the original TIF file and trimmed off the > black border from the scan. I saved it as TIF, and this time PhotoPaint > 8 opened the file fine. So PhotoPaint doesn't like the black scan border > saved as TIF. I don't think it's the black scan border that's the problem. I think that Hijaak and PhotoPaint are just in better synch w.r.t. the TIFF standard. Hijaak is definitely more lenient than many graphics programs about what sort of malformations or misrepresentations it will accept in an image file. It's probably also closer to the standard than most scanning software, I'd guess. > 2. But for all images, PhotoPaint 8's "Effects" tools were nearly all > grayed out. I've never had this happen before, and I use some of these > regularly. They work fine otherwise. This probably means that PhotoPaint didn't think it was a 24-bit-color image. Many of the "Effects" can only be (reasonably) performed on a 24-bit-color image. > So can anyone tell me what's going on, and what to do? Having just > bought a scanner, I don't want to have to buy new or updated software > right away (Corel is now up to version 10). Just use Hijaak to read, then save, the files after they're scanned and you're probably good to go. TTYL, DougF - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
