[pov] Photoshop fails to open iPhone *.PNG's
- From: John Sage <jsage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: POV <pov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:29:14 -0800
Here's a really obscure issue. Maybe you can win a bar bet with it.
Apple iPhone 5C; take a screen-shot (not a photo: press Home/Power
simultaneously) and it's saved as *.PNG
Attempt to open in Adobe Photoshop.
Photoshop fails to open with a "...file format module cannot parse the
file" error.
Rename the *.PNG to a *.jpg
Photoshop opens it quite happily.
After some poking around with exiftool it seems that the iOS screen
shot file extension is a lie: it has the extension of *.PNG but it's
really a jpeg.
So what I'm thinking is Photoshop is seeing a mis-match between the file
extension and the exif data and throwing its hands up in disgust.
For whatever reason.
The real question is why the hell Apple is naming what is really a jpeg
image as a png.
Only Apple...
- John
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FinchHaven Digital Photography
Box 2541, Vashon, WA 98070
Email: jsage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.finchhaven.com/
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