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Re: Bitmaps and tiff files
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Re: Bitmaps and tiff files


  • Subject: Re: Bitmaps and tiff files
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 00:01:36 +0100

At 10:22 PM +0100 6/2/02, Steve Suranie wrote:
>
>Hi all:
>
>I am working on an app to convert some images for my company and I was
>wondering if there is a way to programmatically tell if a file is a bitmap
>file or a tiff file. (I need to know so I can call the correct Actionscript
>in PhotoShop - and curse that program for not being Apple scriptable.)

Not a specialist, but doesn't the tiff files begin with TIFFblah or
blahTIFF? If this is the case, you could use the Standard Additions' "read"
command to read the 4 or 8 first bytes.

Emmanuel
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