----- Original Message ----- From: "James Schenken" <jds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 8:23 : Re: PS question : Roy: : : While the common use of the .FFO extension is for Microsoft fast : search software, Adobe in the past used to denote a file associated : with an image that contains information about that image. Selecting : File / File Info got you to an editor that allowed such information : to be captured. Current versions do this same trick using embedded : EXIF data in a universal format inside the image file. The .FFO file : would have the same file name as the base image file and that was how : they were associated. You may be able to get at the data by opening : such a file using Notepad or some other plain vanilla text editing : program. It may be ( strictly speculating here ) that the data is : formatted ASCII strings. : : You can find an article on this subject by searching or .FFO and for : "annotate your images" on the Smart Computing web site. Their : discussion refers specifically to Photoshop 6.0 : Ooh, didn't think of that! if that's the case and it is an image, dropping it straight into irfanview will open it too, as Irfanview ignores file extensions and simply looks at the data :) nice when someone's addled the extensions of things - calling a jpg a mpg, an avi a ogg, a raw an xls, a txt a ICO will not fuss irfanview in the least, it will simply open the file and tell you what the file *actually* is and prompt you to change the extension to the correct one clever little sucker ;) k
