Progressive jpegs and mac os9

Jeffrey Reynolds jeff at siphonophore.com
Wed Nov 16 12:34:34 EST 2005


FYI, just had a little gotcha on a project.

Turns out a Mac OS9 app built with rev261 build 152 will not display a 
jpeg that is a progressive scan jpeg. the progressive jpegs work fine 
in osx and in classic os9. It appears it might be a quicktime problem. 
Even though the classic and os9 systems are running the same system 
version and quicktime version, quicktime for classic appears to have a 
few more plugins that might be allowing the progressives to be 
displayed in classic but not native os9.

bummer we were all but golden then a final check on os9 found a handful 
of the jpegs had mistakenly been saved as progressives. simple fix, 
just save as regular jpegs, but something to be aware of if you want to 
run on native os9.

cheers,

jeff reynolds




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