> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Enders [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:37
> To: Paulo Soares
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] support of different TIFF-compressions
>
> Hi Paulo,
>
> thanks for your quick answer.
>
> Paulo Soares wrote:
>
> > Those are very old news. iText now supports TIFFs directly, LZW and
> packbits
> > included, ICC, CMYK, etc.
>
>
> That sounds good. May you give some further information what "now"
> means? Which version of iText do I need.
> I obtained the version 1.00 which is provided via an http link.
>
1.00 has it.
> > No planar mode and masks, though. See the package
> > codec.
>
>
> Is there any source code, how to use this class?
> In the documentation which is provded online, only the old method
> (reading the TIFF by yourself) is mentioned.
>
See the example read_tiffs.java in www.geocities.com/itextpdf. It
can read all the pages in a TIFF.
> > You can also use Image.getInstance() but in that case only the first
> > TIFF page is read.
>
>
> This sounds good. How do I need Image.getInstance for an LZW compressed
> TIFF?
>
You don't have to worry about the compression. Image.getInstance
will recognize the right image type and load it. In the case of TIFF it will
process several compressions, LZW being one of them.
> Can I create an Image for a tiff, than I would do for a PNG? In the
> current documentation it is still written:
> "An Image is the representation of a graphic element (JPEG, PNG or GIF)
> that has to be inserted into the document".
>
> Does this also mean TIFF?
>
Not only TIFF but also WMF and BMP.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> Ciao
> Markus
>
>
> > Best Regards,
> > Paulo Soares
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Markus Enders [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 15:49
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: [iText-questions] support of different TIFF-compressions
> >>
> >>Hi everybody,
> >>
> >>i wonder if it is possible to write LZW-compressed TIFFs to an PDF using
>
> >>iText. As fas I know, PDF is able to decompress those LZW compressed
> >>TIFFs, so all I need to do is to put the binary data in PDF-file and to
> >>set information that it is a LZW compressed TIFF.
> >>
> >>Using the example code
> >>http://www.lowagie.com/iText/examples/Chap0612.java it works perfectly
> >>for non-compressed TIFF images, when you use
> >>img=Image.getInstance((int)w, byteswritten,
> >>(int)channels,(int)colordepth,im) getting the Image instance.
> >>
> >>Is there any possibility to do it the same way with LZW or PackedBits
> >>compressed TIFFs? Will there be any support for these TIFF-file formats
> >>in the future? (I'm not asking that iText should decode and encode
> >>LZW-tiffs; only to write them as they are to the PDF....)
> >>
> >>
> >>Ciao
> >>Markus Enders, GDZ
> >>
> >>
> >>
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