2011.08.12 17:30 "Re: [Tiff] libtiff still under development?", by Larry Gritz

On Aug 12, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Weichao Wang <weichao_wang@hotmail.com> wrote:

They should all read out uncompressed image data of the whole image. For colour image the data should be aligned in planar format, so that a user can easily get a certain colour component. This way a libtiff user needn't to bother with questions as:

Is the image stripped or tiled?

Is the colour image data in chunky or planar format?

I hope you won't say that I'm too lazy or too greedy......

If that is your primary goal, may I suggest trying OpenImageIO (http://www.openimageio.org)? It wraps libtiff (and a bunch of other image formats) in a simple format-agnostic API that hides all these details in exactly the way you describe.

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Larry Gritz
lg@larrygritz.com