Re: jpegs that won't open
Joe,
after opening the .jpg in a couple of other programs, I would agree--time
for a newer version
Ray
halinar@open.org wrote:
> Ray:
>
> >I am getting an error message that says " unsupported SOF marker type
> >0xc2", with a following message that the jpeg is corrupt.
>
> There is NOT one file format for .jpg files. I don't understand all
> of it, but there are many different flavors of .jpg files. The "SOF"
> error you get is an "start of file" error. What this means is that
> the image viewer you are using is an older version that doesn't
> recognize the newer format. I have this problem quite often with the
> older 16 bit viewer I use as my default .jpg viewer. When you get
> this problem just use a newer image viewer and it almost always works
> unless the file itself is corrupted.
>
> Joe Halinar
>
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