Help - Problem parsing TIFF in Photoshop

Peter Nelson (mailto:pnelson@MTHOLYOKE.EDU)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:49:57 -0400

Message-Id: <199810081952.MAA32194@dns.ccit.arizona.edu>
Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:49:57 -0400
From: Peter Nelson <mailto:pnelson@MTHOLYOKE.EDU>
Subject:      Help - Problem parsing TIFF in Photoshop
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

Here is a perplexing problem -- I hope someone can help us.

We scanned some documents on one scanner (an HP ScanJet IIcx) and saved the image files as TIFFs. Later, additional documents were scanned on a different scanner (Microtek ScanMaker III) and added to the previous group. Both scanners are connected to PCs running Windows. Settings for both scan jobs were identical (400 dpi bitonal, TIFF with PC byte order, LZW compression). Now in Photoshop 4.0, we proceeded to batch-process the TIFFs (save them as grayscale GIFs). Strangely, the images produced from the Microtek scanner were processed fine, while the others done on the HP scanner couldn't be opened "because of a problem parsing the TIFF file," quoth Photoshop. Has this happened to anyone else, and if so: what's the cause and can any of the files be salvaged?

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.

..................................................................... Peter Nelson mailto:pnelson@mtholyoke.edu Five College Archives Digital Access Project c/o Mount Holyoke College Archives http://clio.fivecolleges.edu South Hadley, MA 01075 (413) 538-3020

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