[Pythonmac-SIG] Does PIL handle OS X TIFFs?

[Dinu Gherman]

Just van Rossum:

> This can of course easily be turned around: why did Apple choose to use
> a non-mainstream variation of TIFF? I know nothing about TIFF format
> details, but if it were a mainstream format, I'm sure PIL would've
> supported it.

I'm no expert either... AFAIK TIFF is as "big" a format for bitmaps
as SVG is for vector graphics, including many options for many para-
meters. That probably makes it difficult to support them all. But
given that Apple has a word to say when it comes to graphics apps
I wonder if the TIFFs it creates are not simply spread enough to
support them. Anyway, this is probably off-topic here.

If anybody wants to go playing I suggest this as a starting point :-)

   http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/223320

Have fun,

Dinu

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