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Re: One more suggestion Re: Help - Problem parsing TIFF in Photoshop

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From: Garry Forger
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 00:00
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I know that Photoshop cannot read Tiff that are saved as Group IV
compression.  However, Photoshop will usually tell you that it cannot read
Group IV when it gives you the error message.

A company called Equalizer makes a software (debaelizer) that can convert
Tiffs to jpgs and vice versa.  There web site is
http://www.equilibrium.com/

We looked at this software, but do not use it currenlty.

Garry Forger

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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, James Otto wrote:

> Peter,
>
> In re-reading your message it struck me that the TIFFs that *didn't*
> work were the ones produced on the HP.  Hmm...
>
> It doesn't seem like TIFFs produced by an HP scanner would cause any
> trouble in Photoshop.  These two giants (HP and Adobe) should be
> compatible, or at least one would think.  Perhaps the problem lay in
> your batch-processing *together* two potentially different kinds of
> TIFFs.
>
> Again, hopefully someone with more expertise than I will offer further
> assistance.
>
> James
>
>
> Peter Nelson wrote:
>
> > 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                                    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
> > ......................................................................
>
>
>
> --
> James A. Otto
> Digital Projects Specialist and ERes Manager
> Honnold/Mudd Library Special Collections
> (The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges)
> 800 N. Dartmouth Avenue
> Claremont, CA  91711-3991
>
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> jotto@rocky.claremont.edu
>
> "Through tower halls the Many come to talk,
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> Talk, talk, talk, talk fills many hundred ears
> That empty as a story's told, rehashed,
> And told to someone else, or fiction grows...
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> Everything heard or seen throughout the Globe."
>      --Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 12
>
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