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2000.11.24 00:30 "Re: Using libtiff without reading from a file", by Leonard Rosenthol
At 3:06 PM -0500 11/23/00, Wolfram Bettermann wrote: > I would like to use libtiff in a Window environment (NT, 2000). > For our client/server enterprise solution we need to quicky decode TIFF > images,coming from an IBM mainframe, and get it displayed on Windows based > clients. The problem is, that libtiff needs for all of the API functions a > file handle (fh), means you have to do I/O first before you can decode > the TIFF image. What we would like to do, is passing the > (TIFF) file contents as a blob of data for decoding directly > to libtiff, without first reading it from disk. Take a look at ImageMagick (<http://www.imagemagick.org>) which is an image processing library that uses libTIFF for it's TIFF support and fully supports working with in memory "blobs". Leonard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You've got a SmartFriend in Pennsylvania ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol Internet: leonardr@lazerware.com America Online: MACgician Web Site: <http://www.lazerware.com/> FTP Site: <ftp://ftp.lazerware.com/> PGP Fingerprint: C76E 0497 C459 182D 0C6B AB6B CA10 B4DF 8067 5E65