help! "Unsupported Color Space" Error opening TIFF

[Dostick]

Hi,

I got TIFF files of some scanned images, and I can't open them in ANY
program,
I downloaded about all possible viewers on the internet and all they fail to
open that TIFF.
Photoshop 5.1 says "Could not open the document because TIFF file uses an
Unsupported color space.
ACDSee think that it's a corrupt JPEG and show garbage. Some other viewer
said that Image uses the 6th type compression and cant open it.

Please point me in right direction. I am desperate. I need to open damn
TIFF.
Roman.

[martin reball]

Dostick wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I got TIFF files of some scanned images, and I can't open them in ANY
> program,

Hi Roman,

i hope the program on this site, called "GraphicConverter" can help
http://members.aol.com/lemkesoft/

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[Dostick]

Thank you for reply, but It's a MAC program. I don't have MAC anywhere here.
Do you know any similar software for PC?

martin reball <m.re...@argonauten.de> wrote in message
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[Guess Who?]

Have you tried recreating a scanned image without using compression.
There are several TIFF formats when compression is involved and many
graphics programs do not understand each other. The best bet is to
save the file as an uncompressed TIFF or save as a BMP file. If you
get a check box for LZW compression while scanning, turn it off and
see if that works. I believe that TGA files may have this problem
also.

Doug

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:42:29 GMT, "Dostick" <pro...@mailbox.riga.lv>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I got TIFF files of some scanned images, and I can't open them in ANY
>program,

[Tom Lane]

"Dostick" <pro...@mailbox.riga.lv> writes:
> I got TIFF files of some scanned images, and I can't open them in ANY
> program,

Can you get hold of the program that made these files? If not, you're
probably wasting your time. There are a lot of variants of TIFF (the
spec authors never met a feature they didn't like). Worse, there are
a lot of broken TIFF writers out there that write files they claim are
TIFFs, but in fact are not compliant with *any* plausible reading of
the spec.

Reading between the lines I gather that what you have are files that
try to conform to the old-style TIFF/JPEG spec (TIFF compression type
6). There are very few programs that even try to support type 6, and
hardly any that do it correctly --- almost every type-6 TIFF I've ever
seen has clear violations of the spec, and is unreadable by any
program except the one that made it (whose TIFF decoder presumably
misinterprets the spec in the same way as its encoder). It doesn't
help that the type-6 spec is ambiguous on some points.

Bottom line is these files are probably a heap of junk bits.
Go back to the source and scan 'em again. Use something a tad
more portable than type-6 TIFF next time.

regards, tom lane
organizer, Independent JPEG Group
member, TIFF Advisory Committee

[Dostick]

I wasn't scanning those images, they was scanned in another country and
brought to me.
That's why I need to open them so much! I don't want to go to another
country because of
files doesn't open :(

> Have you tried recreating a scanned image without using compression.
> There are several TIFF formats when compression is involved and many
> graphics programs do not understand each other. The best bet is to
> save the file as an uncompressed TIFF or save as a BMP file. If you
> get a check box for LZW compression while scanning, turn it off and
> see if that works. I believe that TGA files may have this problem
> also.
>
> Doug
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:42:29 GMT, "Dostick" <pro...@mailbox.riga.lv>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >

> >I got TIFF files of some scanned images, and I can't open them in ANY
> >program,

[martin reball]

Dostick wrote:
>
> Thank you for reply, but It's a MAC program. I don't have MAC anywhere here.
> Do you know any similar software for PC?

Hi Roman,

sorry, i dont know other good progs for PC. But one idea - you send me
one of this TIFF files and i will try to open it. You can send it by
email or icq. Or if you have the possibility you can send it by ISDN +49
(0) 89 / 36 81 59 88.

[Guess Who?]

Roman,

I worked on the file that you sent me and I think that I fixed your
problem. Check your email if you have not done so. I was able
to open and convert the TIFF file from using JPEG compression
to LZW compression. Then Photoshop was able to open it.

Unfortunately your file size went from 500K up to 5 Megs. It then
opened just fine in Photoshop. Go to Start > Programs > Accessories >
Imaging and you will open a Kodak program that will read your TIFF
file with no problems. You can also convert the program with this
Imaging program. I know that it is included with U.S. copies of
Microsoft Windows but I do not know if all MS Windows versions
have this program since you are overseas.

Hope this helps and check your email for more information.

[Paul Grace]

Try this:

File/Color Settings/Profile Setup...

Go to the Profile Mismatch Handling and set RGB, CMYK and Grayscale to
*Ignore*

Then try to open the image.

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