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2004.03.01 22:10 "Re: Hello world", by Chris Cox
At 9:10 PM +0100 3/1/04, xevit wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I'm working on a vision project, and I want to make a viewer for a > large files ( >= 4Gb ). > Currently I've developed a small viewer using libtiff that works on > a tiled image that makes 100.000 x 100.000, and works fine. > Altrought, I have some problems because I want to read and write > some tiles in this file without doing the read from one file, and > writing to another. > > I've been read some information about this, and I find that libtiff > don't support this. Anybody knows a solution for this problem or > alternative. > Thank's in advance. TIFF cannot support any file over 4 Gig. That is a limitation inherent in the TIFF spec. and no changes to libTIFF can change that. You need a different file format - but at this time, very few image formats go over 4 Gig. (and very few implementations go over 2 Gig correctly ;-) Chris