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From: aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer)
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Subject: Re: TIFF's under 2.0
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Date: 7 Jun 91 01:45:38 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.002304.1187@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Alex Raftis writes:
>TIFF Error: Wrong data type 3 for field "SubfileType".
>Error #1: Bad Image Format

The SubfileType field is an obsolete TIFF field which is supposed to
have one short value. Well, judging from the error message above, your
file does seem to have the correct type (type 3 is short). Looks like
there is a bug in NextStep's interpretation of the SubfileType field.

Almost any application which writes TIFF files will probably write out the 
NewSubfileType field.  You might want to try to find an app which can
read the SubfileType field correctly; hopefully such an app will read your
files fine and be able to create TIFFs with NewSubfileType fields which
NextStep will accept.

This is the first time I've heard of TIFFs with this problem (ie, TIFFs with 
this obsolete field in them)... Which app did you say generated these files?

Ali, Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com