PS7 not recognising bmp files?

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Jun 27, 2004
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PS7 not recognising bmp files? Any ideas.

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tacitr
Jun 27, 2004
PS7 not recognising bmp files? Any ideas.

Um…what kind of computer? What operating system?


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noone
Jun 27, 2004
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PS7 not recognising bmp files? Any ideas.

Other than to note that on XP and Win2K on my systems, PSCS sees them fine. Do any of your other graphics viewing programs recognize them? Is this restricted to a particular file, or is it common to all BMP’s? In most Win systems, there are many in the Systems files and as splash screens in many other programs. Do a Search for *.bmp and see if any of these will open. I’ve never experienced this problem and cannot duplicate it on any of my machines, so no solution is forthcoming.

Sorry,
Hunt
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tacitr
Jun 27, 2004
Other than to note that on XP and Win2K on my systems, PSCS sees them fine.

On MacOS 9 and earlier systems, Photoshop can have trouble "seeing" a .bmp file because there is some debate in the Mac programming community over what the proper Type code for a .bmp file should be.

Macs use Type and Creator codes, not file names or extensions, to identify a file. Some applications set the Type code of a .bmp file to "BMPf" while others set it to "BMP ". Photoshop will "see" one type but not the other, unless you choose the option to show all file types in Photoshop’s Open dialog.

I do not believe this issue affects systems running OS X.


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Kingdom
Jun 28, 2004
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Other than to note that on XP and Win2K on my systems, PSCS sees them fine.

On MacOS 9 and earlier systems, Photoshop can have trouble "seeing" a .bmp file because there is some debate in the Mac programming community over what the proper Type code for a .bmp file should be.
Macs use Type and Creator codes, not file names or extensions, to identify a file. Some applications set the Type code of a .bmp file to "BMPf" while others set it to "BMP ". Photoshop will "see" one type but not the other, unless you choose the option to show all file types in Photoshop’s Open dialog.

I do not believe this issue affects systems running OS X.

PC – XP PRO

It just completely fails to see them at all, they don’t show in the browser nor in the open dialog box!

Other programs see them just fine. No other problems, no errors messages, nothing! Its just as if they were not in the directory.

This just seems to have started recently but exactly when, or why I have no idea.


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Eric Gill
Jun 28, 2004
Kingdom wrote in
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PC – XP PRO

It just completely fails to see them at all, they don’t show in the browser nor in the open dialog box!

Other programs see them just fine. No other problems, no errors messages, nothing! Its just as if they were not in the directory.
This just seems to have started recently but exactly when, or why I have no idea.

Photoshop supports BMP via a plugin (Photoshop 7.0\Plug-Ins\File Formats \BMP.8BI). I’m willing to bet your plugin is thrashed. Maybe copying it off your install disk would help.
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noone
Jun 28, 2004
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says…
Other than to note that on XP and Win2K on my systems, PSCS sees them fine.

On MacOS 9 and earlier systems, Photoshop can have trouble "seeing" a .bmp
file
because there is some debate in the Mac programming community over what the proper Type code for a .bmp file should be.

Macs use Type and Creator codes, not file names or extensions, to identify a file. Some applications set the Type code of a .bmp file to "BMPf" while
others
set it to "BMP ". Photoshop will "see" one type but not the other, unless you choose the option to show all file types in Photoshop’s Open dialog.
I do not believe this issue affects systems running OS X.

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Didn’t know that there was a potential problem with MAC OS’s, thanks for the info.

Hunt
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Stuart
Jul 6, 2004
Kingdom wrote:
(Tacit) wrote in
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Other than to note that on XP and Win2K on my systems, PSCS sees them fine.

On MacOS 9 and earlier systems, Photoshop can have trouble "seeing" a .bmp file because there is some debate in the Mac programming community over what the proper Type code for a .bmp file should be.
Macs use Type and Creator codes, not file names or extensions, to identify a file. Some applications set the Type code of a .bmp file to "BMPf" while others set it to "BMP ". Photoshop will "see" one type but not the other, unless you choose the option to show all file types in Photoshop’s Open dialog.

I do not believe this issue affects systems running OS X.

PC – XP PRO

It just completely fails to see them at all, they don’t show in the browser nor in the open dialog box!

Other programs see them just fine. No other problems, no errors messages, nothing! Its just as if they were not in the directory.

This just seems to have started recently but exactly when, or why I have no idea.

What happens when you try and open (double click) a bmp in windows explorer?

Stuart
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Kingdom
Jul 7, 2004
Stuart wrote in
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Kingdom wrote:
(Tacit) wrote in
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Other than to note that on XP and Win2K on my systems, PSCS sees them fine.

On MacOS 9 and earlier systems, Photoshop can have trouble "seeing" a .bmp file because there is some debate in the Mac programming community over what the proper Type code for a .bmp file should be.
Macs use Type and Creator codes, not file names or extensions, to identify a file. Some applications set the Type code of a .bmp file to "BMPf" while others set it to "BMP ". Photoshop will "see" one type but not the other, unless you choose the option to show all file types in Photoshop’s Open dialog.

I do not believe this issue affects systems running OS X.

PC – XP PRO

It just completely fails to see them at all, they don’t show in the browser nor in the open dialog box!

Other programs see them just fine. No other problems, no errors messages, nothing! Its just as if they were not in the directory.
This just seems to have started recently but exactly when, or why I have no idea.

What happens when you try and open (double click) a bmp in windows explorer?

Stuart

Acdsee opens all images for viewing


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Stuart
Jul 9, 2004
Kingdom wrote:
PC – XP PRO

It just completely fails to see them at all, they don’t show in the browser nor in the open dialog box!

Other programs see them just fine. No other problems, no errors messages, nothing! Its just as if they were not in the directory.
This just seems to have started recently but exactly when, or why I have no idea.

What happens when you try and open (double click) a bmp in windows explorer?

Stuart

Acdsee opens all images for viewing

Did you install Acdsee after you installed PS? Delete the Photoshop preferences file (on version 6 that I am using here it is called ‘Adobe Photoshop 6 Prefs.psp’) and if that doesn’t work then just do a reinstall over the current one.

Stuart
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hoffmann
Jul 9, 2004
Kingdom …
PS7 not recognising bmp files? Any ideas.

Use the standard installation. A custom installation
is misleading – the menue is somewhat confusing.
I´m sure that PhS will be able to open BMPs then.

Best regards –Gernot Hoffmann
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Kingdom
Jul 13, 2004
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Kingdom wrote in message
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PS7 not recognising bmp files? Any ideas.

Use the standard installation. A custom installation
is misleading – the menue is somewhat confusing.
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