Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!mondo.engin.umich.edu!marmoset From: marmoset@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dave Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: TIFF graphics from apple to WP 5.1 Message-ID: <1990Aug27.163333.9901@caen.engin.umich.edu> Date: 27 Aug 90 16:33:33 GMT References: Sender: Dave Walker (marmoset@ub.cc.umich.edu) Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN), University of Michigan Lines: 50 In article ojp@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Olli Pihlajamaa) writes: > > Want to do following: > >1. Scan a picture with Apple Scanner and AppleScan -program (16 gray > scale) > >(1.b Perhaps manipulate image with Digital Darkroom -program) > >2. Save/export picture as TIFF -file (8-bit) > >3. Move it to UNIX system w/ FTP > >4. Move it to PC floppy disk > >5.a Import image into WP 5.1 text >5.b Convert image to .WPG file and import into the text > > Everythings OK but one thing: TIFF -image is inverted to >negative image. (gray scales have been reversed - black is white and >so on) and I can't get image into right gray scales. > > In UNIX system I can view those scanned images without >problems w/ Poskanzer graphics tools: tifftopgm TIFF-file | pgmtopbm | >pbmtoxwd | xwud. > > Help me! > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Olli Pihlajamaa, Palovartijantie 17 E 64, 00750 HELSINKI, FINLAND > Tel:(358-0-) 364163 (home) 43566070 (work) >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BITNET: INTERNET: DECNET: > ------ --------- ------- > PIHLAJAMAA@FINUH pihlajamaa@cc.helsinki.FI HYLK::PIHLAJAMAA > - ojp@hemuli.tik.vtt.FI - >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your problem is, in my experience, that the AppleScan software is generating a TIFF file which uses Motorola byte-ordering, and you need Intel byte- ordering for WP 5.1. I'm not too familiar with Digital Darkroom, so I don't know iif it provides an option for saving Intel TIFF files. If you have access to Adobe Photoshop, however, I know for a fact that that program supports both Motorola and Intel byte-ordering in its TIFF save dialog box. ------------ Dave Walker, DAS My big mouth, not theirs. marmoset@ub.cc.umich.edu (preferred) or marmoset@mondo.engin.umich.edu