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2006.04.06 15:11 "Re: BigTIFF Suggestion", by Bob Friesenhahn
> > ImageMagick's MIFF format (extension via pure concatenation) > > Sorry, I'm too lazy at the moment to go and read the ImageMagick source, > but in the light of Joris' recent comments, I wonder how you handle > that reliably, if it's really pure TIFF concatenation. I mean, there's > nothing in a TIFF that tells you the size of the file, so the only > way would be to either scan for the TIFF signature (dangerous), > or to determine the "last" offset that isn't referred to anywhere > (complicated, and with the image deletion problem Joris sketched). ImageMagick's MIFF has nothing to do with TIFF. MIFF is a rather simple format in which a sequence is comprised of the same stuff which forms a stand-alone image, but concatenated together. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/