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*Almost* perfect... but chokes on some images

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Contributed by: vt196 Sunday, July 15 2007 @ 06:33 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

I've been using Newswatcher in its various incarnations for years, and am impressed with its quality--especially considering the price! The expansion of its mail functions in 3.5.2 to handle more modern servers solved a problem for which I'd been forced to use cumbersome workarounds for ages.

Now just one item remains on my "please fix" list.

I browse a lot of anime newsgroups. Some class of image found in them breaks MT-NW's built in viewer--the display routine simply bails, resulting in the display of a blank image.

But other images display just fine. I haven't any theory yet about what characterizes the troublesome images. If it would be useful to you, I could investigate further. (I used to work in Mac software QA, and so have some relevant experience)

Let me know if you would find this useful.

Jim Kurck
jk-mtnw@sporadic.org   

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JPEG 2000 - tengutech

I think it is a JPEG 2000 issue. That is, I don't think MT-NW can decode JPEG2000 images, so just displays a blank.

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