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2010.08.23 10:18 "Re: TIFFWriteScanline works on Windows and Linux but fails on Mac", by <molholm@gmail.com>
Update: any compression seems to fail on mac, only uncompressed work.
Any ideas where to look for a cause/solution?
2010/8/23 Dennis Mølhom Hansen <molholm@gmail.com>:
> I have narrowed down my problem a bit, first I found that the
> following is needed on Mac:
>
> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_PLANARCONFIG, PLANARCONFIG_CONTIG);
>
> Even though the tif spec. clearly stats that: "If SamplesPerPixel is
> 1, PlanarConfiguration is irrelevant, and need not be included."
>
> Futhermore, i'm now able to save my image correct if I do not use
> compression. But I needed LWZ compression, any ideas why
> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_COMPRESSION, COMPRESSION_LZW); make
> TIFFWriteScanline fail?
>
> 2010/8/20 Dennis Mølhom Hansen <molholm@gmail.com>:
>> I use libtiff3.9.4 for reading and writing TIFF files in c++ on mac
>> 10.6.4. My project is written to be portable and runs without any
>> issues on both Windows 32-bit og Ubuntu 64-bit. But on the mac the
>> Libtiff function TIFFWriteScanline always fails (it returns != 1). The
>> TIFF file is created, but it does not have any contents. I'am able to
>> read the LZW compressed images but i'm not able to write it.
>> Furthermore the program also works for CCITT Group4 images on windows
>> and linux, but read scanline fails on the mac.
>>
>> I have tried both libtiff3.8.2 and libtiff4.0.0beta6 without any luck.
>>
>> Any ideas why libtiff won't write scanlines on the mac when it works
>> fine on linux?
>>
>> Code:
>>
>> // set baseline tags
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_IMAGEWIDTH, 7368);
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_IMAGELENGTH, 4757);
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_BITSPERSAMPLE, 8);
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_SAMPLESPERPIXEL, 1);
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_ORIENTATION, ORIENTATION_TOPLEFT);
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_COMPRESSION, COMPRESSION_LZW);
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_PHOTOMETRIC, PHOTOMETRIC_MINISBLACK);
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_THRESHHOLDING, 1);
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_XRESOLUTION, 400;
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_YRESOLUTION, 400);
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_RESOLUTIONUNIT, 2);
>>
>> uint32 rowsPerStrip;
>> rowsPerStrip = tiffData->height;
>> rowsPerStrip = TIFFDefaultStripSize(tiffImage, rowsPerStrip);
>> TIFFSetField(tiffImage, TIFFTAG_ROWSPERSTRIP, rowsPerStrip);
>> TIFFSetupStrips(tiffImage);
>>
>> // row buffer
>> scanlineSize = TIFFScanlineSize(tiffImage);
>> scanline = (unsigned char*) _TIFFmalloc(scanlineSize);
>>
>> // write image
>> for (int i = 0; i < iplImage->height; i++)
>> {
>> memcpy(scanline, iplImage->imageData + iplImage->widthStep*i, scanlineSize);
>> if(TIFFWriteScanline(tiffImage, scanline, i, 0) != 1){
>> //Error
>> }
>> }
>>
>> // clean up
>> _TIFFfree(scanline);
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dennis
>>
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