UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Hi guys
Did there not used to be a way to change byte order for Tiff files i think it saving a Mac but need IBM Byte order to open in Star Tools.
Mike
Mi Michael @moviecells,
Hmm, i think in a distant past that could have mattered, but these days I think all Tiff reader implementations should be able to read TIFFs no matter the bytecode, it is very well documented.
Quick google: https://asktimgrey.com/2019/02/20/byte-order-for-tiff-images/
Maybe an Adobe package can help you change the byte order? Load it into Photoshop and save with the other byteorder?
So then StarTools can not read a TIFF created on macOS ?
I have never run into this issue with the TIFF Reader/Writer that APP uses, so I can only assume that it writes in both byte-orders depending on the platform and will read both on all platforms.
Mabula
Hi
Would seem APP is saving in MAC format then but i am on a PC on windows. Star tools gives me this error if i try load a APP tiff, yes i could load in a Photoshop and save it again but its another step though it could be changed on in APP i did a forum search and back in 2018 it was reported you could now change byte order but may be it changed again. Here the error when trying to load a APP 16bit tiff file.
Mike
Dear Michael @moviecells,
We never provided the option that you can choose the byte order for a Tiff file. At least I can not remember that. Issues like this are more than a decade old, see the links indicate in my first response.
This is just a very old problem with TIFF files and any Tiff reader should be able to handle both byte-orders, so for me this is an issue that you want to have fixed in StarTools, rather than ask us to provide the option to choose the byte order when you save a tiff.
For me, this is rather a bug and shortcoming in StarTools than an APP problem.
Mabula
