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From: blanford@spf.trw.com (Ronald P. Blanford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: TIFF's under 2.0
Message-ID: <284E7BE4.4640@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 18:16:03 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.002304.1187@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
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In article <1991Jun6.002304.1187@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>  
alex@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu (Alex Raftis) writes:
> In article <2846effc.234@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
> 	sdesai@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sujay) writes:
> >I have been using MacImage to scan some pictures which I save
> >as uncompressed TIFFs. When I upload them to a NeXT running 2.0
> >it won't recognize them! 
>
> TIFF Error: Wrong data type 3 for field "SubfileType".
> Error #1: Bad Image Format
> 

This one bit me, too.  If you are familiar with the TIFF format and directory 
structure, all you have to do is change the data type to 4.  The tag for the 
SubfileType field is FE.  I did it using emacs, with difficulty.