Hi Bob!

Thanks for the script! I've been needing that a lot for debugging
Krita's TIFF plugin.

Would it be possible to support YCbCr with your script as well? We can
read and write those since some time ago (see
https://www.asmail.be/msg0055222281.html).

Best regards,

amyspark

On 11/05/2023 11:30, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Some people are interested in TIFF test images in order to test their
> own software, or to see what is possible with the TIFF format (and
> libtiff, which makes this all reasonably possible).
> 
> I have added a 'genimages' shell script to the GraphicsMagick source
> tree in the utilities/tests/gen-tiff-images subdirectory which uses
> GraphicsMagick (a common Q16, or preferably a Q32 build) to produce 736
> permutations of uncompressed TIFF/BigTIFF files.
> 
> On my laptop, this script produces 3.4G of files in just a few minutes.
> 
> The README.txt file in that directory
> (https://hg.osdn.net/view/graphicsmagick/GM/file/tip/utilities/tests/gen-tiff-images/README.txt)
>  provides instructions as well as a summary of current output.
> 
> Few of the generated files can be described as "baseline" TIFF and many
> are quite esoteric, with unusual bit depths, and floating point formats
> (unfortunately, not HDR).  Indeed, most software will not be able to
> read most of the files.
> 
> Since this is just a shell script, someone can modify it to do whatever
> they like such as to also produce compressed files or play with
> strip/tile options, or change image dimensions.  The TIFF format is
> remarkably flexible so it would be easy to produce 10x (or 100x) more
> output sub-formats in order to exercise corner-cases.
> 
> Bob

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