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Topic: Unimportable TIFF
Conf: (P-PDF) General, Msg: 25568
From: jbrewer22026
Date: 8/11/2001 10:27 AM

OK, I've accepted certain facts in life: fast food isn't; customer service is an outdated concept; and even though Acrobat 5.0 has the capability to import files directly from a scanner, it can't really and that everything must first be scanned as a TIFF file and then imported (making it possibly no longer the fastest way to publish your documents to the web).

I have accepted it, and tried to adapt in the finest Darwinian tradition.

So this morning I scan a two-page, type-written, strictly black ink on white paper document (about an hour ago I started this) as a TIFF file using exactly the same scanner settings. Then I go to put this into Acrobat. Page 2, the short one, imports fine and looks just as good as if I'd scanned it directly from Acrobat 3.1 using the import scan capability (that used to work fine! I can't do that now because it generates a digital signature error which, according to this forum, is exactly what it should do for reasons that no-one will care to explain).

My problem is this: Page 1 will not import. Every time I try to import page 1 I get "The input file "%s" is corrupt or of an unknown/unsupported type. Do you want to skip this file and continue?" (my options consist of a single "OK" button, so I guess I do want to skip this file and continue).

So I rescanned the page and tried again. Same result. I tried resampling the page, changing the contrast, renaming it with the exact same name as page 2 (which imports), and chanting "Adobe is wonderful, Adobe is fine, Please Adobe, Import this page o' mine." But no luck.

I'm dealing with two type-written pages (black and white) scanned at 400dpi grayscale into Corel Photo-Paint 10 and saved as a TIFF file. Page 2 always imports into adobe 5; page 1 never imports. Page 2 is approximately half a page of typewritten text, page 1 is a full page. Do you suppose Adobe just doesn't like what the page has to say? Have I angered the Adobe Gods by my frequent sarcasm and verbal abuse? Is Corel Photo-Paint an unacceptable image editing application simply because it's not an Adobe PhotoShop? Is this something to do with Bill Gates!

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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