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flyingsolo
October 18th, 2008, 03:15 AM
I loaded some old digitized photos from my father in law which have a file extension I'm not familiar with called .pic. When I try to view these with eye of gnome, it says it can't read it and specifically says:
"BMP image has unsupported header size."
This seems to be a bitmap image but I don't understand the unsupported header size reference or know how to fix that. Any ideas would be appreciated.
(these digital versions were made as an 'extra' to a set of prints in the early days of digitization of photos)
thanks
eternalnewbee
October 18th, 2008, 03:27 AM
I loaded some old digitized photos from my father in law which have a file extension I'm not familiar with called .pic. When I try to view these with eye of gnome, it says it can't read it and specifically says:
"BMP image has unsupported header size."
This seems to be a bitmap image but I don't understand the unsupported header size reference or know how to fix that. Any ideas would be appreciated.
(these digital versions were made as an 'extra' to a set of prints in the early days of digitization of photos)
thanks

Try to make a copy of one image and then renaming it with a familiar extension and see what happens.
Good luck.
jerome1232
October 18th, 2008, 03:47 AM
http://www.fileinfo.net/extension/pic

that's about all the info I could muster up on that format.

Have you tried gimp?
flyingsolo
October 18th, 2008, 03:52 AM
@eternal newbee: Sorry, but I tried that--no go because the file is in a particular file format that seems to be a proprietary form of bitmap used by the original commercial photo service.

@jerome1232: Thanks for the link. I haven't tried gimp yet but does it allow changing of image formats? What I find confusing is that EOG recognizes it as a bmp file but can't open it because of this 'header' issue.
eternalnewbee
October 18th, 2008, 04:03 AM
Sorry, but I tried that--no go because the file is in a particular file format that seems to be a proprietary form of bitmap used by the original commercial photo service.

Well, have you tried to open the files with your web browser?