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

Not only a single image viewer application, but all following applications showing fg and bgreversed

MS Picture viewer
MS Document Imaging
MS Paint
MS outlook (latest one)

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Belamge, Pundaleek wrote:
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>>

>> 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
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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Pundaleek P B