[Scribus] problems importing tif files

Plinnell scribusdocs
Mon Nov 22 00:55:34 CET 2004


On Monday 22 November 2004 01:51, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> maybe someone already encountered a similar problem: scribus doesn't
> like some tif files I have to deal with. They appear neither on screen
> nor are they printed. GIMP (2.0.1) doesn't complain while loading (which
> it does quite often with tifs scribus can load).
> I'm using scribus 1.2 on Mandrake 9.2 along with an updated ghostscript
> (8.14).
>
> Sorry, if the problem has been mentioned before.
>
> Christoph

The big determiner is what application created them. Scribus uses libtiff to 
import them. There are some 50 plus different flavors of Tiff and not all 
applications write them with the same fidelity to the specification.

Peter




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