[16539] in Athena Bugs
Frame problems importing gif image
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Dec 7 15:11:33 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:11:27 EST
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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To: howardk@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, jhawk@MIT.EDU, f_l@MIT.EDU
Subject: Frame crashes when importing gif file
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:07:15 EST
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I looked into this:
>What were you trying to do?
> Import /mit/howardk/Public/c3mess.gif as a graphic in FrameMaker;
>selecting File/Import and entering the file causes framemaker to crash
>and dump core.
>
>
>What's wrong:
> Framemaker shouldn't dump core. It also shouldn't do so silently.
>With the default user configuration (coredumpsize limited), it doesn't
>even say "Segmentation violation". It just exits with all windows closing
>and no message displayed.
and talked to Frame tech support about it. They said to load it into
Photoshop and resave it under a different name. I did this and the
copy worked fine. (It was different but I don't know what
changed). Photoshop didn't complain. (Neither did xv or Applixware).
They said that it was probably corrupted in some way and didn't seem
very interested in pursuing it further. I said that even a corrupted
file shouldn't crash it; that it should test for file integrity first
and print an error dialog if bad. They took this as a feature
request... I think that's about as far as we're going to get with
this...
Alex
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