[Digikam-users] old style jpeg support

[mick]

Thanks Giles,

I'll do that.

At the moment I have a few things that have been scanned as tiff (old
style jpeg) on the same scanner and its only options are tiff or pdf.
I'll convert to png when I get the libtiff recompiled.

Thanks.


On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 06:28 +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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