PSP X -- files saved as TIFF won't load in Painter
Tony Karp
This took a while to figure out.
Files saved as TIFF (uncompressed or LZW) in PSP X won't load into Painter 7.
Painter just closes and vanishes. I don't know if later versions of Painter
will load these files, but I suspect they will have the same problem.
I have PSP X 10.01.
Files saved as TIFF (uncompressed or LZW) in PSP 9.01 work fine in Painter.
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Fred Hiltz
> This took a while to figure out.
>
> Files saved as TIFF (uncompressed or LZW) in PSP X won't
> load into Painter 7. Painter just closes and vanishes. I
> don't know if later versions of Painter will load these
> files, but I suspect they will have the same problem.
>
> I have PSP X 10.01.
>
> Files saved as TIFF (uncompressed or LZW) in PSP 9.01 work
> fine in Painter.
Write your defect report to the E-mail Corel tab at
http://support.corel.com. Be sure to tell them the size and color
depth of the image so they can reproduce the problem and believe it.
If you can offer a small image that demonstrates the defect, so much
the better. That email address does not accept attachments, but they
will reply with an upload URL if they want your sample.
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Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com
Tony Karp
>Write your defect report to the E-mail Corel tab at
>http://support.corel.com. Be sure to tell them the size and color
>depth of the image so they can reproduce the problem and believe it.
>If you can offer a small image that demonstrates the defect, so much
>the better. That email address does not accept attachments, but they
>will reply with an upload URL if they want your sample.
Did that this afternoon.
I was just curious if anyone else here had seen this.
Fred Hiltz
[snip]
>
> Did that this afternoon.
>
> I was just curious if anyone else here had seen this.
There have been reports of trouble with 16-bit images in TIFF, but I
do not recall any others on the Corel newsgroups. That is where most
of the activity is. http://tinyurl.com/2pt9o has a list of their
URLs if you would like to look in.
Tony Karp
Response (Greg D.) - 11/03/2005 12:14 PM
Hello Tony,
I was able to reproduce the problem and will forward it onto our development
team for review.
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Fred Hiltz
> Response from Corel:
>
> Response (Greg D.) - 11/03/2005 12:14 PM
> Hello Tony,
> I was able to reproduce the problem and will forward it
> onto our development team for review.
Thank you for keeping us in touch, Tony.
Tim
> This took a while to figure out.
>
> Files saved as TIFF (uncompressed or LZW) in PSP X won't load into
> Painter 7. Painter just closes and vanishes. I don't know if later
> versions of Painter will load these files, but I suspect they will
> have the same problem.
>
> I have PSP X 10.01.
>
> Files saved as TIFF (uncompressed or LZW) in PSP 9.01 work fine in
> Painter.
As a workaround, does it work if you save the TIF as LZW compressed with
an embedded ICC profile?
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Tim
Tony Karp
>As a workaround, does it work if you save the TIF as LZW compressed with
>an embedded ICC profile?
All variations of TIFF from PSP X will fail to load in painter as far as I can
tell.
Workaround is to use PSP 9 (which I still have) or another graphics program to
load, then save the file as TIFF before loading into Painter.
No other program seems to have this problem with loading PSP X TIFFs. Just
Painter.
But there won't be any finger pointing, as Corel now owns both PSP and Painter.
There will probably be a fix for this in the next upgrade/patch for PSP X.
Uni
> "Tim" <timm...@XremoveXhotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>As a workaround, does it work if you save the TIF as LZW compressed with
>>an embedded ICC profile?
>
>
> All variations of TIFF from PSP X will fail to load in painter as far as I can
> tell.
Let's see, Corel authors Painter and Corel also authors PSP-X, but
they're aren't compatible with one another. Now wonder why Corel will
never be another Microsoft!
:-)
Uni
Tony Karp
>On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:25:58 -0500, Tony Karp
><tkarpATtlcDASHsystems.com@> wrote:
>
>>Workaround is to use PSP 9 (which I still have) or another graphics program to
>>load, then save the file as TIFF before loading into Painter.
>
>Does Painter support other lossless 24 bit formats? BMP, PSD, PNG
>etc.?
Ron,
Not sure, but I don't want to switch formats when it's not necessary. It's just
a problem with how PSP X saves TIFFs, and it will probably be fixed in the next
patch/upgrade, now that they're aware of the problem.
For the few pictures that will be worked on in Painter after PSP X, I use other
programs (PSP 9, etc) to re-save them as TIFF, which works fine with Painter.
That way, everything stays as TIFF.