On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 9:06 pm, you wrote: > On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:38 pm, John Richard Smith > > wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > >I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when > > > working with images, but have come across a real > > > puzzler. In the large batch of photos I'm working > > > with, two directories contain .jpg and .bmp images. > > > Some of the .bmps were written by a windows program, > > > and some by gPhoto. The .jpgs display as thumbnails, > > > but the .bmps don't. > > > > > >In a third directors there are images that were > > > captured from video by a windows application, then > > > trimmed in Gimp. These all show as .BMP. These > > > images do display as thumbnails. > > > > > >All three directories are subdirectories in a fat32 > > > partition, so renaming *.bmp to *.BMP makes no > > > difference. > > > > > >Any ideas, anyone? > > > > > >Anne > > Anne, BMP's are a lot of things. Essentially it is nothing > than "a collection of bits". I remember form my OS/2 days > a great application - PMView - that gave a thorough > explanation of the various .bmp-formats. There IS a big > difference between Windows- Unix- OS/2- etc. etc. when it > comes to bmp-pics. > > Regards > Kaj Haulrich
and I thought .bmp was a lowest common denominator! As a 'collection of bits' I thought it would be the simplest format, understood by all. The programs I use for editing have no problems with them, but I have seen other problems in windows programs, such as the one that I use for contact-print sheets can't read the .bmps direct from the video capture. If I open them in an editor and re-save there is no problem. Nothing's simple, is it? Anne
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