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Error converting (some) tiff to jpeg: Invalid argument to native writeImage

See original GitHub issue

While converting tiff files to JPEG, we occasionally (rarely) will run into the following error:

Note: The same file will convert properly to PNG format.

javax.imageio.IIOException: Invalid argument to native writeImage
	at com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter.writeImage(Native Method)
	at com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter.writeOnThread(JPEGImageWriter.java:1067)
	at com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter.write(JPEGImageWriter.java:363)
	at com.twelvemonkeys.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter.write(JPEGImageWriter.java:173)
	at javax.imageio.ImageWriter.write(ImageWriter.java:615)
	at javax.imageio.ImageIO.doWrite(ImageIO.java:1622)
	at javax.imageio.ImageIO.write(ImageIO.java:1588)

I’m attaching a sample maven project which has sample files and test cases. You should see a failure in the test case com.acme.ConvertTiffToJpegTest#convertProblemTiff

Version Info:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.twelvemonkeys.imageio</groupId>
            <artifactId>imageio-tiff</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.twelvemonkeys.imageio</groupId>
            <artifactId>imageio-jpeg</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.2</version>
        </dependency>

openjdk version "1.8.0_332"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Temurin)(build 1.8.0_332-b09)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Temurin)(build 25.332-b09, mixed mode)

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Created a year ago
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mcantrellcommented, Jun 16, 2022

Yeah, I’m not sure why this image has an alpha channel. The image was created as part of a test dataset long ago where I used an app to convert a PDF to Tiff. I just happened to notice that it failed like some of the other live data we saw.

Regarding the ImageIO.write result, I tried Open JDK 17 and it does return false instead of failing so it’s definitely something with OpenJDK 8.

For our purposes, I’m fine with just using PNG if the alpha channel is present. We only use JPEG if there is color in the image because the performance was much faster.

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mcantrellcommented, Jun 16, 2022

Thanks for the link to the JDK9 PNG writer backport. That looks very interesting. I’ll give it a shot.

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