Get URL/File As Container - TIFF Images

[DM&A]

I found out today that the Get URL "new URL(url)" does not handle TIFF images.

The FileMaker container fields do display TIFF images fine, and ScriptMaster seems to load other images fine.

Playing around with the imageIO libraries has availed me nothing. THe most I can get is a file reference. I am guessing this may just be something internal to ScriptMaster, and was hoping for some guidance.

Thanks!

PS. I have looked at using SuperContainer, but the IE engine used in the Windows Web viewer doesn't handle TIFFs, and the web viewer doesn't seem to handle plugins.

Edited October 17, 2008 by Guest

[shmert]

No, it's a problem with the JVM (Java). Java has trouble with TIFF images, it seems to only support reading them erratically.

There are some classes in the private sun packages for dealing with TIFF images, but they don't seem to be enabled by default, and trying to enable them manually leads to linkage errors and other bad things.

There are some 3rd party java libs for dealing with TIFF images, but I haven't tried them out.

SuperContainer also only really works with TIFF when running in CoreImage mode on OS X.

[DM&A]

Thanks for the info. I can quit banging my head against the wall now and thinking that I am missing something simple.