imageJ cant read tiff with packbits 32773 compression?

Posted by Daniel James White on Aug 29, 2007; 2:28pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/imageJ-cant-read-tiff-with-packbits-32773-compression-tp3698499.html

Dear All,

is anyone else having trouble reading TIFF files
  that have packbits (32773) compression ?

I get an error message saying
ImageJ cannot open TIFF files compressed in this fashion (32773)

according to

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf

packbits should be a base standard form of tiff  compression that all  
tiff readers should be able to handle...?

Is there some technical reason why imageJ cant open tiff with  
packbits compression?
Patents/licenses?
Or is it just a feature thats not there (yet)

is there a way around it in imageJ?

cheers

Dan

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