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In article <4iac0h$f2b@rodelo.cyberverse.com>, gruel@hondo.cyberverse.com
(Nick) wrote:

> I just picked up a second-hand copy of ADPro v2.5 and to my surprise, 
> found that the supplied -updated- JPEG loader can't recognize jpegs that 
> include Photoshop or Applemark header hunks (I'm not too savvy with the 
> fileformat tech stuff, but I think those are just hunks added by the 
> software which saves or creates the image).  Those are just two examples, 
> it may be that it doesn't recognize anything but vanilla jpeg files.
> 
> This is rather silly since my oooold version of ADPro (v2.0.1) could at 
> least recognize, load and manipulate those jpegs with Photoshop 
> identifiers in the header (though it does balk at those with Applemark ids).
> 
> This is progress?

> I even tried an unregistered copy of HamLab and it reads, loads and 
> manipulates them all, albeit with a warning that it doesn't recognize the 
> JFIF revision for some of them.
> 
> A'right...bitching over with, does anyone know where I can get a 
> non-braindead jpeg loader for use with ADPro?  I'm not sure if ASDG is 
> still around, or still supporting the Amiga, or if they bother with 
> people who buy their products second-hand, so any info would be useful.

Sadly ASDG (now Elastic Reality) has ditched any Amiga support, so any
fixes for this are unlikely (I'd KILL for GIF89a support on ADPro!!!)...
I've also had trouble with some JPEGS not being recognized by ADPro, for
those I use ImageFX (that and tiff support are the only reason I use
it...), save them as IFF-24 to RAM: and from there open them in ADPro.
I've heard the new version of Viewtek or Fastview can view >and< save
jpegs, maybe it's worth to check them out...  BTW, lately I've been using
PhotoShop's 3.0 Amiga IFF (not HAM) saver on my ShapeShifter partition,
and it works OK, saving in IFF-24 format...

-- 
Victor Vargas G.  €Amiga 3D animation & video graphics/Mac DTP€