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Re: [MacPerl] TIFF decoding



At 7:21 -0500 2000.09.09, Richard L. Grubb wrote:
>I have a received a TIFF file from an overseas friend that I have not
>been able to view with any of my viewers either at home or at work. I
>have studied the format of the file, and per the TIFF 6.0 spec, I
>don't see anything wrong with it yet. It uses JPEG compression and
>YCbCr Colors. Is there a MacPerl module or package I can get that
>will help me to display this picture? Of course the great thing about
>Perl is, even if the modules won't handle certain Tags or encoding
>schemes, I can modify the program myself. LOL. I downloaded several
>Graphics related modules at work (UNIX box), but haven't had time to
>dissect them all to see what their TIFF capabilities are.

I don't know a lot about TIFF, but I do know that QuickTime can read (some
forms of?) it.  Did you try opening it in a QuickTime app, like MoviePlayer
or PictureViewer?

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