[Image-SIG] Re: Problems with TIFFs from Corel Draw?

[Fredrik Lundh]

I wrote:

>> The magic number looks ok, Photoshop opens it ok, but PIL doesn't like it.
>>
>> I've posted a copy of the sample file that has problems at:
>> http://www.cazabon.com/images/testCorel.tif
>
> the file is said to have 999 extra layers, which is a bit more than PIL
> can handle...

my mistake: (999,) means the extra layer has the type code 999, which
doesn't seem to be defined in the TIFF specification.

google brings up:

    http://www.asmail.be/msg0054846667.html

    "Obviously an error. Extra samples should be 1 if photometric=RGB and
    bps has 4 entries."

and

    http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73

    which includes a fix for libtiff, which could probably be adapted for PIL

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