[Image-SIG] problem with PIL's Image.save() on TIFFs
Stani
spe.stani.be at gmail.com
Fri Feb 29 12:28:32 CET 2008
I can confirm that this bug exists and that this patch works. I hope it
gets included in PIL 1.1.7
Stani
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http://photobatch.stani.be
Florian Höch wrote:
> Hello Guy,
>
> PIL 1.1.6 still seems to have a bug regarding its interpretation of
> TIFFTAG_RESOLUTIONUNIT, which could lead to "strange" values being
> written to the TIFF file.
>
> I and Gary Bloom posted fixes to the list awhile ago. For convenience,
> here's the diff patch for TiffImagePlugin.py again, containing both mine
> (reading) and Gary's (writing) fix:
>
>
> 577,578c577,578
> < xdpi = getscalar(X_RESOLUTION, (1, 1))
> < ydpi = getscalar(Y_RESOLUTION, (1, 1))
> ---
> > xres = getscalar(X_RESOLUTION, (1, 1))
> > yres = getscalar(Y_RESOLUTION, (1, 1))
> 580,583c580,589
> < if xdpi and ydpi and getscalar(RESOLUTION_UNIT, 1) == 1:
> < xdpi = xdpi[0] / (xdpi[1] or 1)
> < ydpi = ydpi[0] / (ydpi[1] or 1)
> < self.info["dpi"] = xdpi, ydpi
> ---
> > if xres and yres:
> > xres = xres[0] / (xres[1] or 1)
> > yres = yres[0] / (yres[1] or 1)
> > resunit = getscalar(RESOLUTION_UNIT, 1)
> > if resunit == 2: # dots per inch
> > self.info["dpi"] = xres, yres
> > elif resunit == 3: # dots per centimeter. convert to dpi
> > self.info["dpi"] = xres * 2.54, yres * 2.54
> > else: # No absolute unit of measurement. Used for images
> that may
> have a non-square aspect ratio, but no meaningful absolute dimensions.
> > self.info["resolution"] = xres, yres
> 721c727
> < ifd[RESOLUTION_UNIT] = 1
> ---
> > ifd[RESOLUTION_UNIT] = 2
>
>
> To explain what the patch does: Without the fix, PIL's interpretation of
> RESOLUTION_UNIT is "off by one", e.g. RESOLUTION_UNIT 1 (no absolute
> unit of measurement) is treated as RESOLUTION_UNIT 2 (dots per inch).
> The patch solves this and also takes into account RESOLUTION_UNIT 3
> (dots per centimeters) by converting to dots per inch and setting
> info["dpi"] accordingly. In the case of RESOLUTION_UNIT other than 2 or
> 3, there may be no meaningful resolution set in the image. After
> applying the patch, this case can be checked for in your code if needed
> with yourimage.info.has_key("dpi") and if that returns False, checking
> yourimage.info["resolution"].
> The fix currently has the small drawback that, if RESOLUTION_UNIT was 3
> (dpc) in the input image, when saving the TIFF file the resolution unit
> will always be dpi.
>
> Regards,
>
> Florian
>
> Guy K. Kloss schrieb:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just had some problems with PIL's implementation of the Image.save()
>> method when writing TIFF files. Apparently some internal tags on resolution
>> are totally out of the normal. Using the TIFFs from libtiff later on produces
>> some warning on a tag with bad information.
>>
>> This is what libtiff's warning handler produces:
>>
>> _TIFFVSetField: diag.tif: Bad value 47088 for "ResolutionUnit".
>> diag.tif: Warning, "YResolution": Information lost writing value
>> (-2.94176e-05) as (unsigned) RATIONAL.
>>
>> According to Graeme Gill's information (who implements Argyll CMS, that's
>> using libtiff for its purposes)
>>
>> """
>> [...] According to the TIFF spec, the ResolutionUnit tag can have one of three
>> values: (From tiff/libtiff/tiff.h)
>>
>> #define TIFFTAG_RESOLUTIONUNIT 296 /* units of resolutions */
>> #define RESUNIT_NONE 1 /* no meaningful units */
>> #define RESUNIT_INCH 2 /* english */
>> #define RESUNIT_CENTIMETER 3 /* metric */
>> """
>>
>> It seems like the implementation in PIL.Image for save() puts a non standard
>> value (here 47088) into the field ResolutionUnit, and there also seems to be
>> something funny with the YResolution field in the TIFF file.
>>
>> To me this very much sounds like an issue with uninitialised variables in some
>> structures, as the values tend to be different on different runs, as well as
>> the fact that they're well out of whack indicates this.
>>
>> Guy
>>
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