Problem as reported by customer, <  xxxxx@xxxxx  -deposit.net>

"Some of the TIFF creation methods, say using tools like IrfanView
produce images (with some known depth, compression, ...) that JAI
might not recognize. For instance, I have this image which is
viewable in most viewers, IrfanView, SDTImage etc. but JAI throws an exception for this image.

Interestingly tiffinfo says TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, E002004C000001B0948501I0000017D20031220T091538DRF.tif: wrong data type 4 for "FillOrder"; tag ignored.
TIFF Directory at offset 0x1bf7
 Image Width: 624 Image Length: 288
 Resolution: 100, 100 pixels/inch
 Bits/Sample: 1
 Compression Scheme: PackBits
 Photometric Interpretation: min-is-white
 Samples/Pixel: 1
 Rows/Strip: 105
 Planar Configuration: single image plane
 Software: Created by fCoder Graphic Processor"

The image causing the Exception is attached, and is viewable by using other image display programs like xv. Thus JAI should also be able to ignore the incorrect data type for the FillOrder tag.

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2004-04-06

Use JAI Image I/O Tools which is able correctly to load the image.

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2004-04-06

In the customer-supplied test image the FillOrder field is of type LONG instead of the expected SHORT so when retrieving the field value as an int a ClassCastException results.