Tiff files frmo xsane arent usable in windows

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Dec 7 10:33:55 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 06:25 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> it seems whatever came out of xsane isn't compatible with the fax
> viewer in XP.

Three guesses:  It's a compressed TIFF, and the other computer doesn't
support that compression scheme.  You saved a grayscale or full-colour
TIFF, and the other computer's viewer was expecting two bit black or
white only.  Some strange error during the transfer.

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2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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