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squeamish Posted: 10-16-2008 3:56 PM

I have 4 raster images (aerial photos, actually) that I try and stitch with ICE, but I only get "Microsoft ICE was unable to stitch together any of the given source images. Unspecified error (0x80004005)

 These are TIFF images approximately 70MB each. I tried it with two smaller (60MB) TIFF images and got the same result.

 This error appears almost immediately after I add the images, it doesn't seem to have time to examine any of the images for content.

Thanks for the help.

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My guess is that you are using a tiff format that ICE doesn't know how to load.  We currently only load a subset of the wide variety of tiff flavors.  A good rule of thumb is that if mspaint can't open it, then ICE probably won't either.

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 MSPaint opens the files just fine.

 Here is one of the images:

http://www.squeamishossifrage.com/pics/92120663.zip

 What kind of TIFF file does ICE understand? These are 24bit RGB images.

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 Hmm, they were uncompressed. I re-saved with LZW compression andICE grinds on them for 30 seconds or so and then gives the same error.

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The issue wasn't LZW vs. uncompressed, it was that there were some metadata tags that we don't typically see and were being a bit too picky about opening the file.  We can fix that, but it sounds like you're now seeing a new issue :(

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