Re: discoloration of jpg

Anthony Thyssen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.image-magick.user
Message-ID <20100514134815.20f3fea1@wraith>
On Thu, 13 May 2010 08:51:13 -0500
[email protected] wrote:

| Hi all!
| I'm a relative newbie with imagemagick, and I am encountering a strange problem when converting a series of tiff images to jpeg.  In the converted image, the light brown of the original is replaced by purple.
| 
| You may see an example at http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/node/85828
| 
| Click on the image, and you will see a jp2 rendering that shows the original colors.
| 
| Even stranger, the image displays correctly in Safari, and incorrectly in Firefox.  Windows browsers show a purple image as well.
| 
| I have used a few different versions of IM (all 6X) with the same result.  The convert options are very vanilla -- I have only a --resize option.
| 
| Any ideas on what options to experiment with or other things to check to convert this image?
| 
| Thanks in advance!
| Bill

This seems to be a browser problem.
It may be that IE and Firefox do not yet fully understand  jp2 file
format!

Any specific reason for use jp2 rather than jpeg or png?



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