Re: [APML] Problem with scan and TIFs

[Jerry Lodriguss <jml@astropix.com>]

Monte,

Photoshop 5.0LE does support 48 bit files (this includes everything between 
24 and 48 also which gets written as 48), and it does support LZW 
compressed TIFF files.

Photoshop 7 offers some new advanced options for saving TIFF files, so it 
is possible that it could be something there if they used PS7, but I tried 
those while saving a file in PS7 and it opened in PS 5.0LE ok also, so I 
don't know.

I don't think it's a Mac vs PC TIFF file issue since I open Mac TIFFs on my 
PC all the time, but who knows. If you can open them in QuickTime, can you 
save them then in QuickTime with a new file name, or does QuickTime only 
allow viewing?  Maybe that would let you get at the data.

The other thing I would suggest is downloading IrfanView, a freeware 
program that I highly recommend.  It supports a ton of different file 
formats and if you can open it in there, you will definitely be able to 
resave it with a different name. I've used this program to save files that 
wouldn't open in Photohsop.

It's at:

http://www.ryansimmons.com/users/irfanview/english.htm


jerry








At 09:08 AM 9/17/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>I have changed the place where I get my scans done. The last guys always 
>seemed to give me crappy scans.
>
>The new mob have decent place and did the scans quickly. However, when I 
>try to open the TIF files on my computer it keeps telling me it is not a 
>supported format. I tried to open it in other viewers than PS and all say 
>the same thing. I can get thumbnails on the preview but that's all.
>
>At first I thought it was a MAC TIF and asked them if they did it as a MAC 
>or PC. They claim it is a PC file. Funnily enough I can get them to open 
>in QuickTime which is a MAC derived program.
>
>They told me if I have an older version of PS than theirs it wont open. It 
>is not a PSD, this is a TIF so I don't think that argument holds much 
>water either.
>
>Any thoughts?


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