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Help - Problem parsing TIFF in Photoshop

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Peter Nelson

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Oct 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/22/98

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.

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Peter Nelson pne...@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
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:49:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Nelson <pne...@mtholyoke.edu>
To: IMAGELIB <IMAG...@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>, MAP-L <ma...@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.

Internet is a good way to get on the Net. - Bob Dole
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