2005.08.04 23:42 "[Tiff] RE: NEWBIE HELP NEEDED: Efficiently changing orientation tags in multipage tiff files", by Bradley Feldman

2005.08.04 18:05 "Re: [Tiff] tiff unknown field of tag", by Andrey Kiselev

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:36:40PM +0800, Steven Woody wrote:

i got back some scaned tiff's from a photo lab. openning with xv or gimp

just got a warning message: unkown field of tag 34665(0x8769). i want to know wrong with thoese files and how do a work what's around.

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> > The warning is to be regarded as quite harmless. Any unknown > > (private) tag will generate that warning, but by definition, a

> > private tag should not contain crucial data if the image is proper > > TIFF intended for interchange.

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> so i changed my qustion to how do i suppress the warning messages of > 'xv' when it counts unkonwn tags? its really borning and disturbing.

I am afraid you can do nothing with the XV (excpet writing a patch for XV code yourself). Latest GIMP puts all warning messages in the single window, so it should be not too boring. Also you can use tiffcp utility to create copies of all your TIFFs. tiffcp copies only subset of the baseline tags, so all 'unknown' content will be stripped down (as well as part of 'known' content).

Regards,
Andrey

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