Re: [Gimp-user] how to exposing more tiff load options for scripting

2012-08-20 Thread Tim Dickson
regarding libtiff. which version does gimp for windows use? I will download v4.0.2 for my distro and recompile (enabling the ojpeg options again) and see if the upated standard libtiff programs can handle the files properly ( I had to specially modify libjpeg 6b to support the old jpeg format

Re: [Gimp-user] how to exposing more tiff load options for scripting

2012-08-19 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:08:38 +0100, Tim Dickson wrote: 1. I am using gimp 2.8 (windows version in this case - the version that comes with slackware is somewhat older) Note that the Windows version of GIMP ships with older version of libtiff, because there are problems with the most recent one

[Gimp-user] how to exposing more tiff load options for scripting

2012-08-18 Thread Tim Dickson
I am trying to load single pages from multipage tiffs, convert them to monochrome (dithered), flatten the image, then save them as single monochrome, ccitt group4 tiffs. - all through scripts. The multipage tiffs contain pages in grayscale and colour which were created using the old style

Re: [Gimp-user] how to exposing more tiff load options for scripting

2012-08-18 Thread Burnie West
On 08/18/2012 02:08 PM, Tim Dickson wrote: I am trying to load single pages from multipage tiffs, convert them to monochrome (dithered), flatten the image, then save them as single monochrome, ccitt group4 tiffs. - all through scripts. The multipage tiffs contain pages in grayscale and colour

Re: [Gimp-user] how to exposing more tiff load options for scripting

2012-08-18 Thread Daniel Smith
I don't exactly get what you mean by 200 page tiffs? You mean one continuous image that takes 200 pages worth of sub-images? But anyways, are you using the batch mode? I've never done it but I understand there are a lot of options there from non-interactive command line mode?

Re: [Gimp-user] how to exposing more tiff load options for scripting

2012-08-18 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Daniel Smith opened...@gmail.com wrote: I don't exactly get what you mean by 200 page tiffs? You mean one continuous image that takes 200 pages worth of sub-images? TIFF can store multiple images (pages) in one file. TIFF is one of the most abused image formats

Re: [Gimp-user] how to exposing more tiff load options for scripting

2012-08-18 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Daniel Smith opened...@gmail.com wrote: That must be one heck of a big file. I used to work in graphics but nothing like that. This topic reminds me of the woman a while back who was making a giant fabric image like a mile long? It's probably not that bad,