Tiff images broken

Confused as to why this is happening, so asking the guru's here.
Imported 31 tiff medium format scans from the imacon flextight scanner. images are fine, render correctly in photoshop and preview.
Import screen shows the thumbnails, but once the import is finished, and the files processed, i'm left with this.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3807/screenshot20100302at721.jpg
clicking on any of the images results in a grey screen like this
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/3281/screenshot20100302at726.jpg
I've clicked the option button to rebuild the preview, nada.
If this isn't a bug, I don't know what is, thing is, it renders 80% of my work useless with Aperture 3. Going into the Aperture library, the master images are all intact, it's the previews and thumbnails that are broken, often just black squares or heavily distorted squares.
Message was edited by: DanielC

I copied the masters and previews from Aperture 2.1.4 via the Finder and then imported those into Aperture 3.0.3. I imported the Aperture 2 previews just to use as a guideline of what I wanted the images to look like in Aperture 3. Then I manually recreated the desired versions in Aperture 3). So I 'recovered' what I needed but of course if you have hundreds on 'missing' masters in your library (that are really there but Aperture is too blind to find them) this workaround isn't feasible. I only had four missing and they were based on master TIFFs I scanned three years ago.
As an aside, this effort to recover files that I had painstakingly digitally restored from very old damaged, torn, degraded photographs was not without its benefits. Aperture 3 has tools to do this work better quicker including the new Curves and great Brushes options. Certainly convinces me I would not want to go back to Aperture 2 except to handle flaws that may still be in Aperture 3. To remind the reader, these lost masters were also lost in Aperture 2.1.4 so it was not a problem caused by Aperture 3 in my case.
A further observation, after working for several hours on these pictures, just as I was finishing, I experienced a kernel panic but when I restarted the system and loaded Aperture 3, all changes were intact so I lost nothing. Impressive or good luck? Of course I immediately updated the Vault! I had done all this work in 64bit mode because I wasn't going out to Photoshop for anything, but I wonder if that contributed to the crash as running in 32bit mode has been solid for me. I'll stay in 64bit for a while and see if all goes well (unless I need to edit in Photoshop CS4).
Message was edited by: Rick Lang

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Within this window there is also a window to gather further information....I click it and it tells me...
"Indesign.exe....Error Signature AppName: indesign.exe AppVer: 5.0.3.662
ModName: public.dll ModVer: 5.0.3.662 Offset: 0002e19a"
To view technical inforamtion about the error report, clikc here....
"Then it creates an error report and tells me where the report is located along with a scrollable window of 0xc0000005 and heap of zeros."
The report conatains a whole heap of CHECKSUM ERRORS.
CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP??
I had these errors before updating to 5.03 and the patch hasn't rectified anything!!

Open the .inx file in CS3 (that's what you have, right?) and save as a new .indd.
I'd also be tempted to open the tiff in Photoshop and do a save as to re-write it.
Let us know if it helps.
Storing files on the network leaves you more open tot he risk of file damage during transfer and save operations.
Peter

Displaying TIFF images in Oracle Forms 6i

Hello, friends!
I am working in Oracle Forms 6.0.8 (that ancient tool) and encounter a problem with displaying TIFF images.
I have a number of scanned images and some of them are displayed and some are not. I've tried both extracting them from the database or from the file system (using READ_IMAGE_FILE). Sometimes I am getting just blank field in my image item and sometimes (after using READ_IMAGE_FILE) I get the error FRM-47100 (cannot read image file). Of course I've checked that all the files are displayed using standard tools for displaying TIFFs.
Basically the question is what kind of TIFF is considered valid and readable by Oracle Forms.
Analyzing TIFF tags actually gave me nothing: I have a pair of files with tags different only in image width/length and a number of rows/strip (but even those values are close), and one of the file is displayed correctly while the other is not. The thing I noticed is that invalid files are using compression type of CCITT Group 4.
Possibly Oracle Forms follows TIFF specification only to certain extent and does not support all the extensions, while sometimes the problems are not visible to user.
As a result of my work I need some automatic tool that converts undisplayable TIFF files to displayable ones but firstly I am to determine where the problem is. And it would be very good to have a prooflink that approves my decision.
Looking forward to any help! Thanks in advance.

Thanks to everybody, but I'm afraid my files don't contain any EXIF tags (although TIFF seems to support them). The file doesn't contain any tags with IDs greater than 0x7FFF but only core TIFF tags (with IDs of lower numbers). Moreover I have a file with exactly the same set of tags (but the values are a bit different) which is displayed properly.
I've shared the issued file (nondisplayable) on the following link: [https://rapidshare.com/files/3137807470/2.tif]
If anyone could tell me why isn't it displayed in Forms I would be very grateful.

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After I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I see blank the TIFF images displayed in some web sites, like for example any patent image in the www.uspto.gov web site.
This happens on both Safari and Firefox. They both use the QuickTime plugin (I have version 7.6.3).
However, if I drag and drop the TIFF image and save it in the local hard drive, local applications like Preview display the page correctly.
It seems to be an issue with QuickTime and possibly the MacBook model (I have a first generation MacBook Air, with the GMA X3100 Intel graphic card).
Has anybody experienced this bug?

Any patent image in the www.upsto.gov web site. For example, this link goes to the first page of the U.S. Patent 161,739 Improvement in Transmitters and Receivers for Electric Telegraphs by A.G. Bell:
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All I see a blank page.

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After I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I see blank the TIFF images displayed in some web sites, like for example any patent image in the www.uspto.gov web site.
This happens on both Safari and Firefox. They both use the QuickTime plugin (I have version 7.6.3).
However, if I drag and drop the TIFF image and save it in the local hard drive, local applications like Preview display the page correctly.
It seems to be an issue with QuickTime and possibly the MacBook model (I have a first generation MacBook Air, with the GMA X3100 Intel graphic card).
Has anybody experienced this bug?

Any patent image in the www.upsto.gov web site. For example, this link goes to the first page of the U.S. Patent 161,739 Improvement in Transmitters and Receivers for Electric Telegraphs by A.G. Bell:
http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=00161739&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.go v%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D 1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l% 3D50%2526s1%3D0161739.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F0161739%2526RS%3DPN%2F0161739&PageNum=&R type=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=Viewfirstpage
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TIFF images in PDF documents

Just looking for a short answer, no technical details needed: Is it possible to store TIFF images in PDF documents without losing information?
Thank you in advance,
k.

>On my own computer it seems I only have options to save it as jpg or zip internally.
That's correct. The PDF specification supports many more forms of
compression. Than this.
> Can't find any options to save it as TIFF internally.
That's correct. A PDF image is stored as a collection of pixels NOT as
an embedded graphic format.
The collection of pixels may be compressed according to one of many
compression schemes. There is JPEG (internally called DCTDecode) and
ZIP (internally called FlateDecode). FlateDecode is completely
lossless, so if what you are concerned about is loss of picture
quality, this is the one to use.
A ZIP compressed PDF is typically going to be about the same size as
the corresponding ZIP compressed TIFF.
Aandi Inston

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I have a user who is attempting to create a PDF from a TIFF image using the Adobe PDF print driver (Acrobat 7.0.5). His computer is a 3.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 with 1 GB of RAM. His operating system is WinXP Pro SP2. The TIFF file he is trying to convert is about 2000 pages long. Is this even possible given the hardware and resources I've described?

Sorry, I should have been more explicit...The TIFF image is a multi-page image and is stored in a database here at our office. The user has a proprietary (internally-coded) viewer that's used to open the image from the database, and there's no way to save the image locally. The user wants to be able to search within the image, so he converts it to a PDF. Ordinarily, this works very nicely, but this is his first time trying to do it with an image of more than 1000 pages length.

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