Message-Id: <199810221829.LAA46074@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:28:02 -0400 From: Peter Nelson <mailto:pnelson@MTHOLYOKE.EDU> Subject: Re: Help - Problem parsing TIFF in Photoshop To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
I think I've found the cause those corrupted TIFFs that I described to the list a short while ago. If you care to know, read on...The images were FTP'd to our server on another campus, and the setting for the file transfers was (I strongly suspect) ASCII rather than Binary. This would, I believe, account for the corruption. I believe Homer Simpson said it best: D'Oh!
If you want to find me, I'll be sitting in the corner, peering out from under my dunce cap.
..................................................................... 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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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:49:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Nelson <mailto:pnelson@mtholyoke.edu> To: IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>, MAP-L <map-l@amherst.edu> Subject: Help - Problem parsing TIFF in Photoshop
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
Internet is a good way to get on the Net. - Bob Dole ......................................................................