[PYTHON IMAGE-SIG] new decoders?

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Perry Stoll <pas@xis.xerox.com> said:
> 
> I'm curious to know the prognosis for new decoders in PIL. In my case,
> it would be helpful to have a wider range of tiff decoders, such as
> Group 3 or 4 Fax. How would something like this get added? Patches,
> shareware, freeware versions, /F writes it himself? I realize there was
> a specific decision not to use the tiff library, but can we "borrow"
> their codecs?

img can read tiff files, so with the img-to-pil bridge you should be
able to process them in pil (although I haven't used the bridge
recently).

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