2019.12.09 20:19 "[Tiff] help writing RGB TIFF", by Paul Hemmer

2019.12.09 21:07 "Re: [Tiff] help writing RGB TIFF", by Yakov Galka

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:19 PM Paul Hemmer <paulhemmer@hotmail.com> wrote:

> TIFFSetField(tiff_handle, TIFFTAG_PLANARCONFIG, PLANARCONFIG_CONTIG)

>

You seem to be using a planar configuration here. TIFF spec has this to say about it:

PlanarConfiguration=2 is not currently in widespread use and it is not > recom-mended for general interchange. It is used as an extension and > Baseline TIFFreaders are not required to support it.

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Which translates into "expect funky behavior by other software when using this feature".

I recommend you convert your planar data into interleaved format, which is really straightforward to do, and save that into "chunky" (aka non-planar) TIFF, which is the baseline default.

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