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2005.12.23 20:27 "Re: filtering TIFF tags", by Andrey Kiselev
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 05:02:33PM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > > It should be pretty easy to make the code that reads custom (ie. > generic) tags do so in a lazy fashion. But it could be pretty hard > for the tags that are loaded directly into the tiff directory > structure as other code then just assumes they can be accessed at > will. Most tags work through the custom path now. Only few essential tags loaded in the directory structure. > Perhaps we could look at doing something for the custom/generic tags > first which would solve your problem with big metadata values. I like the lazy read idea. I will look how it may be implemented, but it will be for the next release, of course. Regards, Andrey -- Andrey V. Kiselev ICQ# 26871517