A customer sent me two .jpg files that I was unable to import into Draw or open in PP. Windows won't image them either. The only program that would open them was Photoshop CS3. I exported them as .tiff files from there. Is this a known problem? Is Adobe at it again?

Have you tried Irfanview with them? Irfanview can open a lot of weird
variants of TIFs, and I suspect JPEGs (despite TIF being TIfs and JPEGs
being JPEGs supposedly). Adobe have screwed around a lot with JPEGs in
the past, including embedding masks in them, which is a no-no but they
did it anyway.

Tommy Westbrook wrote:
> A customer sent me two .jpg files that I was unable to import into Draw
> or open in PP. Windows won't image them either. The only program that
> would open them was Photoshop CS3. I exported them as .tiff files from
> there. Is this a known problem? Is Adobe at it again?
>
> Huh?
>
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> THW
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> http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/4998/18240.aspx#18240
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Adobe has invented their own flavor of JPG that is completely non-standard
to include a mask.

I assumed as much. I hate software that doesn't play fair. Is there any way that we can defeat - or expose their efforts? If their jpg files won't display in Internet Explorer, then you know it will piss off Microsoft. Bill - BILL - HELP!!!

I just hope that what goes around comes around! Unfortunately there are to many idiots who ugga and gaga over every stupid new "feature" Adobe introduces. I think a case like that should be fit for a class action suite, it is monopolizing at it's best and probably costs thousands of people a lot of money in time and software purchases. Let's take the bastards on!

Tomy, is it possible to get one of these files for our team to have a look at them?

Contact me through private message or email if yes.

Gérard

I emailed the .jpg to you.