2006.03.04 03:33 "Re: [Tiff] LZW Compression with 16-bit TIFF", by Frank Peters

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 21:12:17 -0600 (CST)

16 bit data can be difficult to compress. Have you tried enabling horizontal differencing?

   TIFFSetField(tiff,TIFFTAG_PREDICTOR,2);

Why should 16-bit data be any different in principle that 8-bit data? A change in data length should not have any bearing on compression (at least that's what I would first think).

As for horizontal differencing, supposedly that's what the "-c lzw:2" option accomplishes. Is there another way to enable this by setting some parameter in the source code and then recompiling?

Frank Peters