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- From: dav@gtc.com (David L. Markowitz)
- Subject: Re: Island Write/paint/draw
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.191821.13251@gtc.com>
- Organization: Genisco Technology Corp.
- References: <1992Aug31.164727.23285@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:18:21 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- gws@gwssun.att.com (Gary Sanders) writes:
-
-
- >Has anyone been able to import tiff images into Island Draw that were
- >not generated by Island? I have attempted to import over 50 different
- >images into Island Draw and always get a file format error.
- >I have tried 5 different tiff sample file from various dos machines,
- >with "NEXT" tiff files and a couple of font conversion programs and
- >almost every file is unusable. A call to island yeilded little info.
- >They use tiff V3 and dont support any previous tiff formats.
-
- Yes, this has been well documented in the past. Island's tiff is
- broken, and (the right people inside Island) know it.
-
- >Anyone have a early tiff to Island tiff conversion program.
-
- Just act as if Island's internal format (which they call tiff) is a
- closed, proprietry format. To import imagery, convert it to rasterfile
- format using any of a number of tools (such as pbmplus and Sam
- Leffler's tiff library) and "convert" it from Island's file menu.
-
- For example, with the above mentioned tiff library:
-
- % tiftoras < your-file.tif > your-file.rf
-
- or, combined with pbmplus:
-
- % tifftopnm < your-file.tif | pnmtorast > your-file.rf
-
- --
-
- David L. Markowitz
- Solaris Systems Division - Genisco Technology Corporation
- dav@gtc.com
-