Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Corrupt images... hrrrmmm...
From: Patrick Herzog (Herzog@ite.rwth-aachen.de)
Date: Thu Oct 01 1998 - 05:12:26 EDT
I can imagine this is a type/creator problem. Did you change the file name on
the unix side? If not, the Mac assumes that your newly created JPEG is still
BMP. And look garbled of course.
Try copy your image to nice.jpg on the unix side and test what it looks on the
mac.
Patrick
Neil McAllister wrote:
> I've just recently (as in, yesterday) noticed some image corruption over a
> netatalk server. I have a script that uses the ImageMagick package to
> convert files from other formats into JPEGs. So the procedure goes like
> this:
>
> 1. Copy an image (say, a BMP) to a netatalk shared directory
> 2. Run the conversion program to make it into a JPEG, on the Unix side
> 3. Double click on the resulting JPEG. It opens with Picture Viewer --
> completely garbled looking.
> 4. On the other hand -- fetch the file, using Netscape, by specifying an
> URL to the file on the Unix server. IT OPENS FINE.
>
> Go figure.
>
> So is this a problem with:
> 1. The way netatalk transmits data?
> 2. The way Linux stores data on the drive (and it isn't completely
> translated by netatalk)?
> 3. The way ImageMagick creates JPEGs (and Picture Viewer doesn't like it)?
>
> I don't know. But the bottom line is -- the images aren't corrupted. Not
> completely, anyway. They just don't seem to want to be used "live" from
> the server via netatalk.
>
> --
> Neil McAllister, Systems Administrator
> Primo Angeli Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
> http://www.primo.com mailto:nmcallister@primo.com
-- Dr.-Ing. Patrick Herzog -- Oberingenieur -- RWTH Aachen Institut für Technische Elektronik Sommerfeldstraße 24 D-52056 Aachen, Germany http://www.ite.rwth-aachen.de
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