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

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Well, libtiff handles MacOS X TIFFs.  I will talk to the
libtiff developers about a build process to get either a
framework or a .dylib build of libtiff, and then someone
more knowledgable about Python (I am still a newbie) can
take it from there, if anyone is even interested...

Tom

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:

> If I could see an example TIFF file, I will see how well it
> works with libtiff.  You know, perhaps someone can write a
> PyObjC wrapper for libtiff...
>
> And now that I think of it, I can produce my own sample TIFF
> file, as I have MacOS X.  Doh!
>
> Regarding PIL:  I use the nifty little tool imgtops, which is
> based on PIL.  PIL does not handle CCITT Group 3/4 compressed
> TIFF images, which is shame, because before the advent of JBIG2,
> CCITT Group 3/4 compression was the best way of compressin b/w
> images.
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Just van Rossum wrote:
>
> > Dinu Gherman wrote:
> >
> > > This is exactly what I think of PIL! But it would be interesting
> > > to know what makes these Mac TIFFs so special that PIL can safely
> > > decide to ignore them? Well, I'll ask the expert...
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Just
>
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