Re: [Gimp-user] unsupported file format

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Natterer
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 22:42 +0100, rht wrote: I am using Gimp 2.8.4 which was updated for Ubuntu 12.04 (DreamStudio 12.04) via apt-get update. Since updating I am getting unsupported file format messages for photos converted from RAW by dcraw to the default ppm then piped through IM's

Re: [Gimp-user] unsupported file format

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Natterer
On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 11:34 +0100, rht wrote: Who is giving you that message when you do exactly what? Gimp 2.8.4 when I attempt to open the file, either via menu -- file -- open, or from the command line using gimp file.tiff. Both methods work with file.tif. That is most weird, because

Re: [Gimp-user] unsupported file format

2013-03-08 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:22:50 -0800, Burnie West wrote: Is it possible that somehow Ubuntu has adopted the Windoze convention that only three-letterextensions are valid? That's a DOS convention - 32-bit Windows always supported extensions of any length. -- Jernej Simončič

Re: [Gimp-user] unsupported file format

2013-03-08 Thread Partha Bagchi
Why don't you report it to Otto? He is quite responsive. On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:12 PM, rht for...@gimpusers.com wrote: That is most weird, because gimp should open the file even if it had some totally different or no extension at all. I agree, filenames are irrelevant to *nix. Magic

Re: [Gimp-user] unsupported file format

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:23 PM, rht for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Why don't you report it to Otto? He is quite responsive. Can you give me a munged email address for him, please? Look here: https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch Chris ___

Re: [Gimp-user] unsupported file format

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Constance Lowery loweryconstanc...@gmail.com wrote: Please take my name and email address off your list, thanks. Follow the link at the bottom of each message to unsubscribe: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list HTH, Chris

Re: [Gimp-user] unsupported file format

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 05.03.2013 23:38, rht wrote: By doing a simple copy changing the extension from tiff to tif [cp input.tiff output.tif] the file now opens. Surely this is not correct *nix behaviour? What's the output of the file command for this file? -- Regards, Michael

Re: [Gimp-user] unsupported file format

2013-03-07 Thread Burnie West
On 03/05/2013 02:38 PM, rht wrote: By doing a simple copy changing the extension from tiff to tif [cp input.tiff output.tif] the file now opens. Surely this is not correct *nix behaviour? Robert Is it possible that somehow Ubuntu has adopted the Windoze convention that only