2004.01.14 12:01 "[Tiff] COLORMAP and byte padding", by Stephan
Assmus
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2004.01.14 12:01 "[Tiff] COLORMAP and byte padding", by Stephan Assmus
Hello,
I'm adding write support to the libtiff based OpenBeOS TIFF Translator. I want to support palette images. The format of the colormap that
TIFFSetField(tif, TIFFTAG_COLORMAP, ???);
expects is unclear to me. In the documentation, it just says
Tag Name Count Type Notes
TIFFTAG_COLORMAP 3 uint16* 1<<BitsPerSample arrays
Ok, so there are 256 entries in the palette if I have 8 bits per sample. So much I follow, but what's with the uint16*?!? And why Count == 3? The BeOS colormap bitmaps all use the same system wide palette, which consists of 256 entries each representing an rgb color with 3 (4 actually) 8 bit values for r, g, b (and alpha). Am I supposed to fit a 24 bit RGB value into 16 bits and have 256 uint16s? Or do I have 3 * 256 uint16s with 16 bits for each r, g and b?
I have also a couple more questions about strip size and byte padding. There seem to be two alternating fields that determine strip size:
TIFFTAG_ROWSPERSTRIP rows per strip of data
TIFFTAG_STRIPBYTECOUNTS bytes counts for strips
Can both be used at the same time to tell libtiff that
strip byte counts != rows per strip * samples per pixel * width?
(So that there are some padding bytes at the end of each row...)
Best regards,
-Stephan