Re: [hylafax-users] "black" faxes in Tiff format that are fine in PDF format

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 28/10/2008 alle 13.54 -0400, Brad Stevens ha scritto:
>   
> > Mine is the opposite...Microsoft's Document images is what I was using,
> > and it was black.  When I open with irfanview or adobe standard they
> > looked fine.
> >     
>
> I had the same problem. It seems that Microsoft Document doesn't check
> the "Photometric Interpretation" on b&w TIFF files. It always assume
> BlackIsZero.

Microsoft's Viewer is a very poor fax image viewer.  If the TIFF image 
data has any error in it at all then it will display much (if not all) 
of the image improperly.

Thanks,

Lee.


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