Rev cannot open my jpeg ! - and some serious thinking

[Ian Wood]

On 27 Jun 2009, at 17:45, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:

> Which brings me to the forum question "I've got photos of 13  
> megapixels that Rev can't handle". Who wants to push the  
> (Revolution) envelope that far ?

People writing tools for photographers? In my case a photographer  
writing tools for other photographers. ;-)

> Let's assume that you are a professional. Don't use Revolution to  
> solve this problem, it wasn't designed for that - use a professional  
> photo program like GraphicConvertor. Of course you can alway put in  
> a bug report, but seriously, don't you think that there are more  
> important issues to be solved with Revolution ?

Depends. If you want to develop an app that deals with photos in  
almost any way (web gallery generation, digital asset management,  
animation, slideshows/presentations) then at this point in time you  
CANNOT do this in Rev* because the vast majority of consumer cameras  
now produce JPEGs that Rev can't handle.

> If I want to knock a nail in, I use a hammer, not my shoe (which was  
> designed for protecting my foot). Revolution is fantastic. It does  
> so many things. Why ask it to wake you in the morning with a hot  
> coffee ?

Because it's a whole field of apps that Rev would otherwise excel in  
as a development tool, apart from this one bug affecting Rev on OS X.

Ian


*Short of jumping through hoops by using large numbers of QT Player  
objects, or using SIPS or similar command line tools to make  
downscaled versions of files etc.