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2010.11.09 05:10 "Re: Problems converting tiff", by Lee Howard
James Lamanna wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to convert the following tiff for faxing, however, I always > receive the following LIBTIFF errors, and then most of my tiff ends up > having a large black box on it: > This TIFF came from an EMR system, so the format of it cannot be changed. > Some TIFF viewers can view the whole tiff properly (Irfanview) but > others stop displaying at the error. > Is there anyway to ignore these errors and continue processing? > > The TIFF is located at: http://ugcs.caltech.edu/~jlamanna/72650-3aab.tif > > Thanks. > > -- James > > Errors: > > > convert: 72650-3aab.tif: Premature EOL at line 0 of strip 1 (got 0, > expected 1728). `Fax3Decode1D' @ tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/526. > convert: 72650-3aab.tif: Premature EOL at line 0 of strip 2 (got 0, > expected 1728). `Fax3Decode1D' @ tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/526. > convert: 72650-3aab.tif: Premature EOL at line 0 of strip 3 (got 0, > expected 1728). `Fax3Decode1D' @ tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/526. > convert: 72650-3aab.tif: Premature EOL at line 0 of strip 4 (got 0, > expected 1728). `Fax3Decode1D' @ tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/526. > convert: 72650-3aab.tif: Premature EOL at line 0 of strip 5 (got 0, > expected 1728). `Fax3Decode1D' @ tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/526. > convert: 72650-3aab.tif: Premature EOL at line 0 of strip 6 (got 0, > expected 1728). `Fax3Decode1D' @ tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/526. > convert: 72650-3aab.tif: Premature EOL at line 0 of strip 7 (got 0, > expected 1728). `Fax3Decode1D' @ tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/526. > convert: 72650-3aab.tif: Premature EOL at line 0 of strip 8 (got 0, > expected 1728). `Fax3Decode1D' @ tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/526. > convert: 72650-3aab.tif: Premature EOF at line 0 of strip 9 (x 0). > `Fax3Decode1D' @ tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/526. > convert: 72650-3aab.tif: Premature EOL at line 0 of strip 9 (got 0, > expected 1728). `Fax3Decode1D' @ tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/526. The software that produced that TIFF is a mess. It sticks loose EOLs in there all over the place unnecessarily. You can "fix" it by doing this: tiffcp -i 72650-3aab.tif new.tif Note the "-i". new.tif will be "clean". Thanks, Lee.