[Digikam-users] old style jpeg support

[Gilles Caulier]

Another alternative is to use ImageMagick like this :

#convert foo.tiff foo.png

But like ImageMagick use libtiff, you will seen a similar problem. If no,
let's me hear. I will take a look using a picture sample from your
collection...

Gilles

2007/10/16, mick <infobahnroadkill at yahoo.com.au>:
>
> 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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