[Image-SIG] Need Tiff Help
Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
gwidion at mpc.com.br
Wed May 16 14:55:44 CEST 2007
Sorry - I have no time to help you right now.
But yoiu really should try to make a PIL image object out of your read
TIFF image with the other library, so you can use everything
available in PIL.
Regards,
js
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On Tuesday 15 May 2007 22:18, Brad Allen wrote:
> At 6:53 AM -0400 5/10/07, Steve Holden wrote:
> >Edmond Chand wrote:
> >> Hello Folks,
> >>
> >> New to python and trying to make an text branding application
> >> to batch process Tif G4 images. Where do I start does anyone
> >> have anything similar they are working on, thanks for helping.
> >
> >I used to have some code that I used to draw the text images for
> > my web site if you think that might help - you just want to draw
> > text over an image, right?
> >
> >If you check the docs for the Imagedraw module you'll find it's
> > not that scary. I have never used TIFFs, though there's no real
> > reason to suspect that they'll be significantly different from
> > other formats.
> >
> >Let me know if you want me to dredge up the code.
>
> Unfortunately PIL doesn't support TIFF Group 4 compressed images;
> this is an increasingly common form of TIFF compression used for
> black and white images such as faxes. I have tried to contact PIL
> commercial support but don't know if they are still in business
> since have not gotten a reply.
>
> In response to this deficiency in PIL, Michele Petrazzo created
> FreeImagePy which uses ctypes to access the FreeImage library.
> However it is incomplete and does not yet offer all the features of
> FreeImagePy, and I don't think it has anything like Imagedraw
> (please correct me if I'm wrong Michele).
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