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2011.07.01 14:12 "Re: Is it possible to read a large tiff image in portions?", by David Burken
On 07/01/2011 12:57 AM, Andreas Kleinert wrote: >> That would be a good addition. All the higher level libraries that link >> with libtiff write their own(like ossim) so it would save a lot of >> duplicate code. > Well, actually, what is the problem with 3rd party libraries? Duplicate > code isn't really a valid argument, as within such application you would > only use one of that libraries. Duplicate code maintenance might be > true, but that is the problem of their authors - and then again libtiff > code maintenance is a topic on its own as well (and such new functions > wouldn't flawlessly do their job on every possible sort of TIFF from the > very beginning; the RGBA functions don't either - but the user > expectation would be that everything is handled gracefully for any > possible input... possibly huge support overhead) So I woke up in the middle of the night thinking libtiffutils... I agree I hate the thought of polluting libtiff. Dave