Re: Creating Really Big TIFF's
Re: Creating Really Big TIFF's
- Subject: Re: Creating Really Big TIFF's
- From: Dave Camp <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:35:14 -0700
If you are not going to display the large TIFF (i.e. just want to build
it and save to a file), I would suggest looking at libTIFF or grabbing
the TIFF spec and write the file yourself. Writing banded TIFF files is
pretty straightforward.
Dave
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 01:35 PM, robert l clair wrote:
It's not clear to me why you need files at this resolution, rather
than
just letting the printer driver deal with rasterizing it
Several reasons:
0) The image isn't going to the printer. (Of course the user *can*
print the image. That's handled with Cocoa's printing objects.)
1) It is the output of specialty vector graphic arts program -
but I want allow the image to be post processed in a raster
program with functionality that I don't provide. (I'm not in
the business of cloning Photoshop.) I know PS will accept pdf
and rasterize it, but I want to be able to go to an arbitrary
raster program w/out worrying about whether it has a RIP. Also,
I am doing some odd things that I can be very smart about within
Cocoa but which pdf (certainly the default Apple implementation)
is VERY dumb about.
2) It may eventually wind up in an output device that doesn't have
a RIP and but does like tiff files.
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