<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/10/16, mick <<a href="mailto:infobahnroadkill@yahoo.com.au">infobahnroadkill@yahoo.com.au</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear all,<br><br>As far as I can tell this is not a digikam error however I am trying to<br>use digiKam to manage my photos and it is unable to open some tif files.<br><br>I am hoping there is somebody who has already solved the problem and can
<br>help me out.<br><br><br>I am unable to view some scans made on a FujiXerox scanner and saved as<br>tif's. In digiKam the exif metadata is reporting "compression<br>(old-style)".<br><br>After doing a quick bit of research it seems the problem may be with
<br>libtiff and I may have to recompile or enable old style jpeg support in<br>libtiff.</blockquote><div><br>Mik,<br><br>Yes, you need to recompile and install libtiff with the right codec support.<br><br>I recommend to use another file format as PNG which is more supported under Linux. Also, PNG is lossless and support all metadata (Exif, iptc, and xmp).
<br><br>regards<br><br>Gilles Caulier</div></div><br>