You can have direct access to the jai codecs to get the tiff tags and values. The problem is that most of the tiff use banding and some use tiling so that you end up by decompressing/assembling/compressing. It will be faster than using an awt image but maybe not as fast as you would expect.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Keeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 21:00 Subject: [iText-questions] Adding TIFF pass through support > What would take to add native TIFF support to itext? The JAI routines > work > but they are slow and use a lot of memory because they uncompress the > TIFF, > etc. I would like to query the TIFF header fields to get only the > information necessary to embed the image in the PDF file and then pass > the > actual image data through without further parsing if possible. > > Thanks, > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Paul Keeley > IDS Developer, INSCI Tel: 508-870-4324 > Two Westborough Business Park Fax: 508-870-5585 > Suite 2000/2001 > Westborough MA 01581 mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old > cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! > https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
