[Digikam-devel] tiff image: what does this mean?
Marcel Wiesweg
marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de
Tue Jan 3 19:30:24 GMT 2012
> a stripped tiff imaged is a tiff image divided in stripes...
>
> (not exactly the same meaning than in 'a stripped executable': a file
> without debug symbols)
>
> now the real question: why doesn't digikam support non-stripped images?
because writing this support is not trivial, noone of us is intimate with the
TIFF format - remember we cannot use the topmost convenience layer of libtiff
as we load 16 bit.
The TIFF format offers a lot of ways to create valid TIFFs differing
substantially from the "usual TIFF" which we support and which covers >90% of
cases.
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