2000.03.28 18:00 "Re: Using 32bit floats within a tiff", by Daniel McCoy

I am new at programming with the tiff library. Is there an archive available that explains using 32bit reals within tiffs?

The good news is that you just set TIFFTAG_BITSPERSAMPLE to 32 and TIFFTAG_SAMPLEFORMAT to SAMPLEFORMAT_IEEEFP, and provide the right data, 0 is black, 1 is white.

The bad news is that few software packages will understand your files and that none of the compression options will do a very good job at reducing your file size.

Dan McCoy    Pixar    mccoy@pixar.com

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