Minolta 5400 and CS2

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Hi all

I have tried to open 48-bit tiff images using CS2 with no success. I get
the error message "Could not complete your request because of a program
error". It appears that there is an incompatibility between the tiff
format produced using Minolta software and CS2. This incompatibility
does not exist with CS. People on the net say that there is a wrong date
in the Minolta file (I did not find a wrong date in my files using a HEX
editor), where files scanned in January are marked as - say - 10:00:2006
where the month is 00 instead of 01. But I had the problem with a slide
I scanned just before christmass too. Does any body has an answer and
workaround?

thanks a lot and happy new year!

Dimitris
 
I have tried to open 48-bit tiff images using CS2 with no success. I get
the error message "Could not complete your request because of a program
error". It appears that there is an incompatibility between the tiff
format produced using Minolta software and CS2. This incompatibility
does not exist with CS. People on the net say that there is a wrong date
in the Minolta file (I did not find a wrong date in my files using a HEX
editor), where files scanned in January are marked as - say - 10:00:2006
where the month is 00 instead of 01. But I had the problem with a slide
I scanned just before christmass too. Does any body has an answer and
workaround?
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Have you tried another program, for example, Irfanview?

http://www.irfanview.com/

It's free and if it reads the file without problems you can re-save
and then see if that fixes whatever was wrong with it.

Failing that, and in case you want to fix it yourself with a hex
editor, this is the official format for the date (from TIFF
specifications).

DateTime
Date and time of image creation.
Tag = 306 (132.H)
Type = ASCII
N = 20
The format is: “YYYY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS”, with hours like those on a
24-hour
clock, and one space character between the date and the time. The
length of the
string, including the terminating NUL, is 20 bytes.

Don.
 
That error message can be due to many different causes in CS2 and, I would
agree, comes up more often than in prior versions of Photoshop.
The message can come up because of an internal error in CS2, I presume
related to memory/resource management, that has nothing to do with the
specific file in question. If that is the case you have to reboot and try
again: shutting down and reopening CS2 will not work. It would also likely
help to turn off background programs, specifically antiviral programs, that
are hogging and constantly paging resources.
In this regard the absolute size of your 48bit file may be an issue if you
do not have enough RAM or if the swap disks are not set up appropriately or
you do not have adequate system resources (Windows speak; MACs have their
own memory management issues).
If the image file was not absolutely accurately recorded on the hard drive
CS2 will also fail to open the file even though it may open in other
programs. Again the absolute size of your image file may be an issue.
Alas, your scanner hardware or software could be the culprit . . . . . . .
 
Lapilli said:
This is know as the Minolta / CS2 January bug
See several threads with explanations in Photonet and Adobe forums

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[email protected]@.3bbde731/4

or

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[email protected]@.3bbddf1a

or

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00End6&tag=

It is a date issue. There ar several work arounds. I simply set the
date to February when scanning.
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It continues to be wrong even in Feb and March :( Setting the date to 2006
March 31, you get 2006 March 3 in the scan!! there is no February 31 :)
I suggest you set the year to 1995, as this year has a calendar identical to
2006. You have to change the date anyway, afterwards.
I haven't tested 2017, which is also identical....
Greetings, Alex
 
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