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2008.12.30 10:07 "scanline v/s striped", by Pundaleek Belamge

2008.12.30 10:11 "Re: scanline v/s striped", by Pundaleek Belamge

2008.12.30 16:26 "Re: scanline v/s striped", by Bob Friesenhahn

2008.12.30 16:25 "Re: scanline v/s striped", by Bob Friesenhahn

2008.12.30 16:41 "Re: scanline v/s striped", by Kevin Myers

2008.12.30 17:29 "Re: scanline v/s striped", by Pundaleek Belamge

2008.12.30 16:41 "Re: scanline v/s striped", by Kevin Myers

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Belamge, Pundaleek wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to use tiffdither utility to convert 8-bit grayscale tif 
>> image
>> to 1-bit bi-level tif image with CCITT Group 3 compression. I am able to
>> generate the tif files but, when viewd the resulting image on Windows, 
>> the
>> image viewer shows foreground and background colors reversed. What might 
>> be
>> wrong?
>
> The Windows TIFF viewer you are using is likely ignoring the TIFF
> photometric.  Perhaps it is assuming MINISWHITE but the file is using
> MINISBLACK.  Your 8-bit grayscale TIFF image was likely using
> MINISBLACK.
>
> Bob

I can verify that the issue described above by Bob is a known problem with 
Microsoft/Wang/Kodak Imaging, which is the default TIFF viewer that was 
supplied with Windows 98 and Windows 2000.

Kevin M.