Hi,

is there a backend that supports 16bit tiff images?
According to the website GDK supports tiff but that's wrong:

 >>>import matplotlib
 >>>matplotlib.use('GDK')
 >>>import matplotlib.pyplot as pyplot
 >>>pyplot.imsave(arr=X, fname='test.tif')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 1425, in 
imsave
return _imsave(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/image.py", line 813, in imsave
fig.savefig(fname, dpi=1, format=format)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1033, in 
savefig
self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 
1420, in print_figure
'%s.' % (format, ', '.join(formats)))
ValueError: Format "tif" is not supported.
Supported formats: emf, eps, pdf, png, ps, raw, rgba, svg, svgz.
 >>>matplotlib.backends.backend
'gdk'

matplotlib 0.99.0 python 2.6.4 ubuntu karmic x64

If matplotlib cannot provide tiff support, does someone know an 
alternative? PIL doesn't work either, at least not intuitively.

Cheers

Philipp

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