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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Path: sparky!uunet!island!coney!hue
- From: hue@island.COM (Pond Scum)
- Subject: Re: Island Write/paint/draw
- Message-ID: <hue.715574748@coney>
- Sender: usenet@island.COM (The Usenet mail target)
- Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
- References: <1992Aug31.164727.23285@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:45:48 GMT
- Lines: 27
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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.
-
- Disclaimer: I work for Island, but I'm not in the division that works on
- Write/Paint/Draw/Presents, I've got nothing to do with them (except they
- use software I work on to create their magazine ads) and the only time I
- talk to Office Products programmers is when I need to steal a book.
-
- Well, with that said, I too have had problems importing TIFF files into
- IslandPaint (I don't think I've ever tried to import into IslandDraw).
- My *guess* is that their TIFF implementation is not complete and they have
- problems handling unrecognized tags (they told me the real answer once and
- I forgot, so I have to guess). However, they seem to do a pretty
- good job with Sun rasterfiles, so I use the pbm utilities to convert TIFF
- to rasterfiles, and then load those:
-
- tifftopnm tiff_file | pnmtorast > raster_file
-
- I guess if you need a TIFF file to load into IslandDraw you can just save
- it out from IslandPaint.
-
- If you need pointers on how to get sources to this stuff and/or build it
- on your machine send me email.
-
- -Jonathan Island Graphics Corp., Graphic Arts Division hue@island.COM
-