Targa?
AmigaWorld was very confused and inaccurate on the entire issue of file
formats – even a little befuddled on some other issues. They used a
non-current version of Imagemaster, and it would appear that they didn't
understand it very well (a not untypical situation for review… we just
can't get it thru the heads of the magazines that in order to be fair to
IM, which is THE most powerful image manipulation system on the Amiga, you
MUST have someone who is a regular user of the software… and we upgrade
IM so often they can't keep current with the huge delays a review has
before actually landing in your mailbox).
Here's the real scoop: Imagemaster has complete 24-bit Targa facilities.
They are in use in many sites; because of the variety of programs that
write such files (not just Targa, but image files in general) it is always
possible to run into a file that may not load. When and if this were to
happen to you, we ask that you send us the file. We in turn examine it and
if it's within spec OR the reader can be modified to load this "variation"
WITHOUT damaging the ability to load correctly to spec, then we update the
reader and get you the updated version. There are other issues about
formats, such as having enough memory to load a particular filetype and so
on.
So: If you find that IM canNOT read your playmation images, which I doubt,
but if that is the case, we'll see to it that the reader is modified so
that it can.
–Ben
…via AutoPilot