Importing jpeg from Mac to PC.

[John Childs]

Sorry Earl, can’t help, but I would say that it shouldn’t matter which platform the file was created on. A jpeg is a jpeg whatever, and you may well have the same problem if the original file was created in Photoshop on a PC.

We open PC generated jpegs on our Macs all the time and have no issues.

[Martin Kennedy]

Hi Earl

Is it possible that the file on the Mac is in CMYK format and as it’s being imported to the PC it’s being changed to an RGB file?

We only use Mac’s here and have experienced this problem when importing from PC. Changing the file type has sorted it out.

Other alternative is to get a PDF file from the Mac – this should be universal.

Cheers

Martin

[Alan Drury]

I suspect this is a colour management issue, what settings do you have in Corel and is it a cmyk or rgb image.
Alan D

[Earl Smith]

I think thats exactly what the problem was. CMYK into RGB. After much phaffing around we sorted it out. I thought it was a MAC/PC thing.
Thanks…

[Simon.James]

Hi Earl

technically as long as its says .jpeg the pc should see it fine, but what the pc. struggles with is seeing a mac format disc whether it is a cd of a flash disc. if the guy on the mac saved it mac and ms dos it should be ok, if he only saved it for the mac you will struggle..

another thing that can causes a problem if you have got an old version of corel running on the pc. and you are trying to import a photoshop CS3 File (later version file), you wont have the colour profile for the mac saved jpeg.

whether it be mac or PC you never really know how your customer saved the file, i personally ask everyone for PDF Files…

best think to do is get a mac, if you envisage getting a lot mac files.

Cheers

Simon