Message-Id: <199901201610.JAA31772@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:05:37 +0100 From: Emil Levine <mailto:E.Levine@IAEA.ORG> Subject: Re: unidentified image format/ TIFF ver. To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
I think Alchemy software provides this capability. You might try their website http://www.handmadesw.com/index.html.
Emil Levine Head, INIS Clearinghouse IAEA/INIS PO Box 100 Vienna Austria A1400 43-1-2600-22880/29882 fax mailto:e.levine@iaea.org
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> From: Wagner,Lynn[SMTP:mailto:wagnerl@OCLC.ORG]
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 January 1999 16:37
> To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: Re: unidentified image format/ TIFF ver.
>
> I've got a similar question, in the TIFF realm:
> How can I confirm what version of TIFF Ihave, i.e. ver. 5.0 or 6.0?
> I see no reference to it in the TIFF tags and the WordPad trick didn't
> work
> either.
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
> Lynn Wagner
>
>
>
> >>Sometimes I am sent image files without any format identifiers. My PC
> >>programs will not identify these automatically and won't open them.
> >>Usually they are JPEGs or GIFs, so I rename them to one and/or the other
> >>and can eventually open them. But sometimes I just can't guess. Is
> there
> >>a way to find out what kind of image file I have when there is no
> >>three-character suffix in the filename?
> >>
> >>R.Baron
> >>mailto:rabaron@pipeline.com
> >
>
> As previously mentioned file like this are often generated on Macs where
> the "file-type" information is not stored in the filename suffix as it is
> with DOS/Windows. Often the quickest solution is to open the file in a
> simple text editor like WordPad. You'll need to set the "File of Type"
> field to "All Documents (*.*)" in the File..Open dialog box. Although the
> bulk of both GIF and JFIF files (what we normally refer to as JPEG files)
> will look like garbage, at or very near the top there will be a short text
> string indicating what the file type is: either GIF87a or GIF89a or JFIF.
> Other file formats often have similar text strings. You can check the
> details for a variety of formats either in a book of file formats (several
> exist) or on the web (search "Graphic File Formats" on Yahoo).
>
> If you were really motivate you could write a script (in Word VBA or some
> such) to search groups of files for these strings and append the
> appropriate suffix. I wouldn't be surprised if some graphics utility
> already handles this task automatically but I can't say I've run into one
> (not that I've been looking).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sean Fox
> Academic Computing Coordinator
> Carleton College
> mailto:sfox@carleton.edu
>