[Digikam-users] old style jpeg support

[Gilles Caulier]

2007/10/16, mick <infobahnroadkill at yahoo.com.au>:
>
> Dear all,
>
> As far as I can tell this is not a digikam error however I am trying to
> use digiKam to manage my photos and it is unable to open some tif files.
>
> I am hoping there is somebody who has already solved the problem and can
> help me out.
>
>
> I am unable to view some scans made on a FujiXerox scanner and saved as
> tif's.  In digiKam the exif metadata is reporting "compression
> (old-style)".
>
> After doing a quick bit of research it seems the problem may be with
> libtiff and I may have to recompile or enable old style jpeg support in
> libtiff.


Mik,

Yes, you need to recompile and install libtiff with the right codec support.

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).

regards

Gilles Caulier
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