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January 20, 2009
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Photoshop CS3 vs CS2 32 bit floating point tiff loading

  • January 20, 2009
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Hi,
The application I'm developing exports 3 channel 32 bit floating point tiff's.
The exported files could have been loaded into PS CS2, but PS CS3 can't load them anymore, all I get is a message box with this message:
"Could not complete your request because of a problem parsing the TIFF file."
I've uploaded the file here, so you guys can have a look at: www.thepixelmachine.com/dispmap.tiff
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Chris Cox
Legend
January 23, 2009
Problem as stated: Photoshop doesn't open your TIFF file.
Most likely cause: your application is not writing the TIFF files correctly.

You should have posted in the normal Photoshop forums for help with the file.
Or, if you were using libTIFF to write the files, on the libTIFF mailing list.
Participant
January 23, 2009
Where should I've posted this thread instead? I suppose people here write plugins by programming them (right?), so they suppose to be programmers, not regular PS users. I thought a programmer would be much more familiar with programming related issues, such as tiff file saving c++ routines. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The people who tested the file have Photoshop CS3 and didn't manage to open it, they even sent me screenshots with the error message box. In CS2 however, the file loads perfectly. Also, the single strip version opened just fine in CS3.
You may close this thread, the problem was solved and more than that it looks like I haven't posted it in the right forum.
Thanks.
Chris Cox
Legend
January 23, 2009
This is a forum for the SDK - Software Developers Kit -- people writing plugins.

What did your post have to do with Photoshop programming?

PS. Photoshop CS2, CS3, and CS4 opened the example file without any problems. Photoshop reads multistrip TIFF files just fine.
Participant
January 21, 2009
Well I tought this is the most appropiate forum to post photoshop programming related questions. However, I've managed to figure out the problem, it looks like CS3 won't load multistrip tiff files, so I had to change the code and save all the pixels as a single tiff strip.
Chris Cox
Legend
January 20, 2009
Um, what does this have to do with the SDK?