Hi,

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 18:52 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

> Certainly nothing with Exif. My guess is that the Ufraw plug-in claims
> responsibility for this file. Most probably the magic header that the
> ufraw loader registers matches for this file. This may be a bug in the
> Ufraw plug-in. You should contact the author.

Perhaps I should add this hint: If you want to check what exactly the
ufraw and tiff plug-ins are telling GIMP about the files that they can
open, you can do this by looking at your pluginrc (in your ~/.gimp-2.4
folder). There should be something like this for the tiff loader:

        (load-proc
            (extension "tif,tiff")
            (magic "0,string,II*\\0,0,string,MM\\0*")
            (mime-type "image/tiff"))

So what does this tell GIMP? It says that any file that starts with the
string "II*\\0" or with the string "MM\\0*" is a TIFF file. This
corresponds to the TIFF spec that says:

  A TIFF file begins with an 8-byte image file header, containing the
  following information:

     Bytes 0-1:
           The byte order used within the file. Legal values are:
              “II”    (4949.H)
              “MM” (4D4D.H)
           In the “II” format, byte order is always from the least
           significant byte to the most significant byte, for both
           16-bit and 32-bit integers This is called little-endian byte
           order. In the “MM” format, byte order is always from most
           significant to least significant, for both 16-bit and 32-bit
           integers. This is called big-endian byte order.
     Bytes 2-3:
           An arbitrary but carefully chosen number (42) that further
           identifies the file as a TIFF file.
           The byte order depends on the value of Bytes 0-1.


Sven


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