>That is most weird, because gimp should open the file even if it had some totally different or no extension at all.
I agree, filenames are irrelevant to *nix. Magic numbers are used instead. >Can you check if ubuntu does some sort of patching to gimp 2.8.4? I don't have to check. Ubuntu patches *every* application. However, there has been a big stuffup here. The version I have upgraded to (ie, the most recent upgrade) is a ppa, "2.8.4-2precise0", by "otto-kesselgulasch". Prior to the point-upgrade to this version GIMP opened anything I cared to throw at it. I have not reported this bug to Ubuntu because, even though I have been a Ubuntu user since version 5.04 and meticulously follow the bug reporting procedure, I have never been able to report a bug in a manner that is acceptable to the various maintainers. I have posted ithe bug in this forum in the hope that someone may have a workaround (or the ear of the maintainer). For the moment I am tacking "cp intermediate.tiff output.tif" onto my initial command line post-processing in order to produce a file that can be opened up in GIMP for further visually- guided post-processing. Robert -- rht (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list