[Image-SIG] Re: cannot identify .psd image

[Fredrik Lundh]

Terry Kerr wrote:

> I have just upgraded our application from python2.1.3/PIL 1.1.2 to python2.3.4/PIL 1.1.4 on linux, 
> and discovered a problem with particular PSD files.
>
> Image.open('product2327_image.psd')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1571, in open
>     raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
> IOError: cannot identify image file
>
> I didn't create the files...they are created by our customers.  You can download an example of a 
> broken image from the link below...sorry its over 1.5meg!
>
> http://bigboy.bizarsoftware.com.au/~tejay/product2327_image.psd
>
> From what I can gather with experimentation, the problem is that it has an adjustment layer with a 
> mask.  If I remove this layer and mask, resave the image, then open with PIL, it works fine.

did this work under 1.1.2 ?

the PSD driver is pretty outdated (the file format has been enhanced a couple
of times since the PSD driver was originally written, and I haven't been able to
keep up).

I'll see if I can come up with a fix for this specific problem.  Stay tuned.

</F>
>
> I found this old archived email from what looks like to be a similar problem, but with no 
> response?
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2001-October/001632.html
>
> Is this a bug?
>
> terry
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