Progressive jpegs and mac os9

[Mark Schonewille]

Can anyone confirm the problem described by Jeff? Since I'm 
using Mac OS 9 a lot, I am trying to confirm this, but without 
success.

Mark

Jeffrey Reynolds wrote:
> 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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