Unsupported tif format
Someone sent me some scanned in documents with three pages in the one tif file and I had a great deal of difficulty viewing them in Linux.
I tried Gimp 2.2.13 which gave an unknown field encountered message KView just gave a black screen KKuickshow gave - perhaps the file format is unsupported or your Imlib is not installed properly Adobe Photoshop LE 5.0 running in windows could not load it. Eventually I manged to load it using a great windows program called irfanview. I now have this working under wine. It seems that the Linux programs are behind the game here. Where might I find a program which can support the most up to date file formats? TIA |
I think I have worked this out with the help of this page
http://suppressingfire.org/~burner/evil-mods-tiff/ Quote:
foremost -i attached.tif -o attached I tried it and it worked. |
I was thinking as much as soon as I read your first post. In my experience, a problem opening ALL files usually means that the reading program has bugs, but problems with only specified files generally means that the generating program did something non-standard. That, or the file is simply corrupt.
This is doubly-true when it comes to Microsoft. You should never expect their programs to generate standard anything. Even so, I'm surprised to read just how blatantly non-standard their tiff generation actually is. Even their own products can't handle the garbage they produce, and you have to use a data recovery program to extract anything usable. Pathetic. |
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