Re: "No RGBA loader" after TIF scan

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

It means your scanner saved the file as an RGB with an Alpha channel 
(extra data, such as transparency) and your graphics tools can't read a 
TIF with an alpha channel.  You need to find an app that can read alpha 
channels (I'm not familiar with GIMP, there might be a plug-in filter 
you can download somewhere), or set the scanner configuration to save as 
a plain, uncompressed TIF and rescan.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Morton" <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: August 21, 2009 11:12 AM
Subject: "No RGBA loader" after TIF scan


>I just scanned a piece on our company's HP CLJ 4730MFP PCL 6 mopier. I 
>saved
> it as a TIF. There is no image preview, and none of my usual graphics 
> tools
> tell me what's going on when I try to open it. In trying Gimp, it 
> gives me a
> "no RGBA loader" error message. Is anyone familiar with this error and 
> its
> resolution?

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