Weird tiffs...
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This is one of those typical "bumps" in my computer highway:
I received a couple dozen tiff scans (20-30meg each) of blueprints (white-line) of bank CD's done in '73...needless to say when first opened the only thing readable were the horizontal scratches. (Do the as-builts fast, hope to get a model request :`)
Anyway, from my hard drive I used PSP to negative and despeckle and was pleased to see they were ink dwgs...quite readable through the remaining shadows. Did a save-as, again to hdrive, till all were done. But...
...when I went back to open a couple to print, PSP gave me an "error while trying to read the file". Terrified that a couple hours of thumb twiddling had been for naught, I tried PP...opened fine. Then tried microstuff's simple little image/fax viewer...opened fine.
They opened fine in every program I have except the one that produced them. Anyone have any idea what the hell this deal is? Would love to put this on out of my head for next time.
Thanks, Tom.
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Tom,
I haven't used PSP, so I can't tell - and I don't expect this to be the answer, but in Corel Draw, you can't open a Tiff you have to "import" it.That work?
poster-Shaun Tennant
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I've seen similar things several times. WordPerfect 5.1 was well known to do such things in the early 90's.
Which version of PSP are you using? Version 9 is the most buggy one I've ever seen.
Last night I tried to convert some .obj files created using Ogle 3d screencapture and Google Earth, using 3D object converter. I know that the resulting dxf's look horrible both in Sketchup as in 3D object converter. No idea if the .obj files were healthy, 3d object converter opened them with no error messages, while it opens the resulting dxf's with a zillion error messages.
S happens, just as much in cyberspace as IRL
regards
Maggyposter-Maggy
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Maggy, using PSP11 (and have no complaints whatsoever, I usually try it first because the "I'll do it for you" one-step filters do a pretty good job most of the time for this sort of thing) but with these files the savedas-ed out of PP won't open in PSP either...really weird!
Thanks, misery does love company, Tom.
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how about saving as png, gif or low compression jpg in PP? My guess they will work in PSP again
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Maggy,
Did try that after the last I spoke and it did work, thanks...still a puzzlement, though.
Best, Tom. -
@unknownuser said:
It is very easy to write a TIFF-writer, but very difficult to write a fully TIFF compliant reader.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ritter/tiff/
poster-Maggy
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