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2007.03.28 16:56 "Re: support for 24 bit floats?", by Kai-uwe Behrmann
Am 28.03.07, 19:09 +0400 schrieb Andrey Kiselev: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:09:08PM +0200, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote: > > Can the RGBA interface work with the 24-bit float sample type to get a > > preview? > > No. But it can't work with 32-bit floating point either and even 16-bit > integer approach is not good. So I am considering RGBAImage API as dumb > and simple and I do not know how it can be improved without growing into > complete interactive image viewing application. I think it is a task for > libraries like gdk-pixbuf to be able to handle complex images sensibly. > Unfortunately many of these middleware libraries (and gtk-pixbuf is an > example) do not provide any added value over libtiff's RGBAImage > functionality, so viewers based on them also have all the limitations of > RGBAImage. Well, I understand you completely. Nevertheless such a middleware library is a realy missed. So I hoped for it in RGBA, and, as Bob pointed out, a bit blindly. Well, creating such a library took me quite some time and it is still not complete. So I can understand why it is not in gtk-pixbuf and osX. At least in Panther most of my tiff's are plainly rejected in the Finder, the same for KDE and Gnome. Do'nt know about Windows. kind regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann -- development for color management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org + www.cinepaint.org