Hi Hussein I would certainly like to be able to use the Jimi plugin to handle the images. I hope that the upgrade to Java 1.5 will fix this in the future. We are looking to change over to Tiger in the near future.
Cheers Steve > From: Hussein Shafie <hussein at pixware.fr> > Organization: Pixware > Reply-To: "xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com" <xmleditor-support at > xmlmind.com> > Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:17:45 +0200 > To: "Tongue, Steve" <Steve.Tongue at openpolytechnic.ac.nz> > Cc: "xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com" <xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com> > Subject: Re: [XXE] Tif errors > > Tongue, Steve wrote: >> I think this may not be a xmlmind problem but I hope someone here can help >> me. We have some tif files and they display fine in xmlmind on the windows >> platform but on the Mac OSX platform display an error message >> "Cannot display image: >> Cannot handle such tiffs yet (bitsperSample=1, hasAlpha=false, >> isOpaque=true......" >> >> I've looked at the xmlmind documentation and it seems that tif files are >> handled natively on mac and by Jimi plugin on windows. Is there any way that >> the image can be passed to the Jimi plugin on mac to handle these file >> types. > > Currently the Java[tm] built-in image toolkit has priority over image > toolkit add-ons such as Jimi. Therefore, there is no way to say: > Java[tm] don't handle TIFFs, Jimi is here to do that. > > The only thing I can do for you is to add a system property which, once > set, will prevent Java[tm] to handle TIFFs (and optionally other formats). > > Please confirm if you or other users are interested in this workaround. > > --- > PS: To my knowledge, Java[tm] 1.5 supports TIFFs. We don't really know > to what extents... > > To my knowledge, MacOSX 10.4 (Tiger) includes Java[tm] 1.5. The problem > is that we have not tested XXE against Tiger (because we haven't > received our Tiger DVD from Apple yet!). We hope to do this for V2.10 > (before end of this month). > > >
