On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:31:16AM -0600, Miles O'Neal wrote: > Phillip Hoerter said... > | > |I hope this is the right place to send this, if not please forgive me. > |I have a few .tiff files of clip art I am attempting to work with. They > |load just fine on a windows machine. but on mine I get errors wit xv, ee, > |and the GIMP, then they all crash. I have this covered (off-list with Phillip) and will apply a fix to CVS as soon as I've figured out what's wrong. Initial resolution is that this TIFF is broken (illegal) but Gimp should not crash, nor should the TIFF loader. > The biggest problem with TIFFs is that anyone can > add arbitrary extensions, and a lot of folks do. > What program/system were these TIFFs generated on? Fortunately even TIFF requires that a baseline decoder should be able to rely on certain facts about the image data, this TIFF seems to have violated the rules in some manner still being investigated. Nick.
