[SciPy-User] How to create multi-page tiff files with python tools?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:59 PM, David Warde-Farley <dwf at cs.toronto.edu>wrote:

>
> On 29-Sep-09, at 2:24 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>
> Hi Sebastian, this is very useful functionality for me as well.
>>
>> The question I have is if your patched PIL includes fixes for 16-bit
>> images.
>> Right now I'm using a patched PIL kindly provided to me by Zachary Pincus
>> that fixes 16-bit issues. I saw that some improvements for 16-bit were
>> included in PIL trunk but not his patches. Your patch is included it
>> seems,
>> so I could also run PIL trunk if someone can confirm that 16-bit TIF
>> images
>> work. I'd prefer Priithon though because then I could stop asking my users
>> to compile PIL themselves...
>>
>
>
> I've been following this discussion somewhat and I wanted to point out that
> (as far as I can remember) image I/O free of PIL dependence was one of the
> stated goals of the image scikit. I'm not sure much progress has been made
> on that front yet.
>
> It seems that common requirements not being met by PIL are
> a) full support for multipage TIFF (loading, creating, saving)
> b) 16-bit multipage TIFF
>
> Rather than monkeypatching PIL four ways from Sunday, maybe it would be
> best to direct efforts towards building a PIL-free alternative?
> Incorporation of very specific code from PIL shouldn't be an issue given
> that PIL is quite liberally licensed.
>

That would be great. I don't know much about PIL internals but I am up for
contributing tests and documentation if such an effort is made.

Cheers,
Ralf


>
> David
>
> (P.S. I'm CCing the scikits-image list as well, should you want to join it,
> etc.)
>
>
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