Hi Bob, Sure. I evaluated time ago IM readers. Found them remarkably superior to other similar packages, even commercial ones. IM was at time one of the most advanced. But I avoided that for many reasons, fist the profiler would be proprietary, but this was no so important. What decided me was the very peculiar use I should do with image data. I needed raw data in many places, so all the logic in the reader for converting to RGB was no needed at all. At that point I began to code the readers by myself.
That was my very particular case. However, I would recommend these readers to anyone wanting to do something not so weird. They are well written and very tested. I am using IM for other tasks almost everyday. Best regards, Marti. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Friesenhahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marti Maria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Hugh Brackett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lcms-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [Lcms-user] First beta of profiler available on site On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Marti Maria wrote: > Could be a good idea... but pity life is no so easy:-) > > The readers included in IM are great, however, they cannot read the > huge amount of flavors TIFF has. Just as example, the profiler > handles pyramidal tiffs, in the case you are opening huge image this > makes a big difference. Also, Lab and others would have no chance if > doing so. Loading whole image in memory sometimes is unpractical. Look again ... The current ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick support reading tiled TIFFs, and have supported reading and writing a form of pyramid TIFF (with tiling) for ages. The TIFF reader and writer capabilities have improved considerably in the past couple of years and are undergoing continuing improvements. An install under Windows will be close to the current version, and not some 2+ year old version like some of the Linux distributions carry. As you say, reading LAB TIFF is not currently supported, and even it it was, the LAB would need to be converted to RGB internally (could use LCMS). Huge images do not result in the whole image being loaded into memory. Instead a temporary file is created which allows random access to the pixels. This makes the size limit depend on available disk rather than RAM. Admittedly, loading huge images can be slow. If you can detail the problems you see with TIFF support, I expect that we can fix them. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
