Re: [Gimp-user] Can't open nef images in gimp 2.9.3

[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri gmail com>]

* JamesB <forums gimpusers com> [01-23-16 19:02]:
> > Dear Partha
> >
> > 2015-12-21 12:19 GMT-05:00, Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>:
> > When trying this procedure indeed, the ufraw soft is launched but it
> > says
> >
> > TIFF image error
> > Unknown field with tag 36867 (0x9003) encountered
> >
> > So I think it tries to open it as a TIFF image. Eventhough it still
> > opens the image as thumbnail, very odd.
> >
> > Regards
> > Alex
>
>
> Am struggling to use gimp for the past month.  Thinking of going back to
> Photoshop.
>
> Do we expect to have the NEF issue solved once and for all in the near future,
> since this is ongoing for some time?


There is *not* a "NEF issue" as .nef is a nikon proprietary file which
need dcraw or ufraw front end to open and pass to gimp.  gimp by itself
cannot open a nef file.  I don't work on windows, but linux.  Partha may
have added something to his gimp packages to facilitate opening non-open
format files, but to my knowledge, gimp must call an external program to
pass nef files to it.  gimp is *not* photoshop.

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