The TIFs have no LZW compression at all, so does this matter? I really
don't care if I use GIF or JPG, I would simply like filesize (aka. load
time) to be as small as possible. Basically my goal is to take the 14,000
satellite images I have in TIFF 6.0 format and make thumbnails of them when
a user requests to view one (or many). Since there are so many images, I
would like to do it on-the-fly, so I don't have to archive the thumbs (space
is an issue on the server). Any ideas?
Dave
> > Has anyone ever heard of a CFX tag (or reasonable facimile) which will
> > automatically convert tif images to gif thumbnails on-the-fly. I found
a
> > CFX_GIFGD tag on the web, but i have yet to find anything for tif
images.
> > help!
>
> You're not going to find any if it's not already been out for years.
Unisys
> is a bit like the mob when it comes to people writting code that uses
their
> LZW/GIF's. You'll have to jury-rig something like jasc image robot, etc to
> do conversion for you.
But does it have to be LZW'd GIFs? Or, for that matter, does it _HAVE_ to
be GIFs? If the purpose is to show the image within a browser, might you
be able to use PNG or JPG? Or at the very least one of the run length
encoded GIFs which, while significantly larger than LZW compressed
GIFs, at least are not patent tainted.
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