[ptx] External command line tools used by Hugin

[Ippei UKAI]

Is PTstitcher open source program? I haven't seen any sources even for 
linux. Binaries for Classic system does not work on current OS (except 
emulation in mode). Anyway, hugin should alert user if it cannot locate 
the program instead of hanging up.

Well, I found enblend option can be selectable when using tiff as 
output. I added MSW like enblend chooser to my source so that hugin can 
locate enblend, but the enblend from kekus.com couldn't open the tiff 
file.

I think user should be able to choose which compression to use with 
their tiff files.
In my case, lzw-compress-kit was needed for AdobeDeflate compression 
anyway. I haven't seen any tiff files compressed with this one, but 
apparently LZW compression is supported by Apple's Preview and Xblend, 
and Xblend did stitch tiff files converted by Photoshop. (Which means I 
did go through autopano_old-HuginOSX-Xblend flow for the first time. 
How easy things could be!) There must be a demand to get LZW or 
uncompressed tiff from hugin, and at least OSX users would demand LZW 
compressed TIFF format.

I ask Arexandre to let me compile autopano for Mac. (Please!) Meanwhile 
I may have to try to integrate autopano_old in cpedit panel (Like "Push 
this button to get 30 points automatically!"). Many people often use 
that panel displaying a pair of flat, single row pano's. It would be 
nice to have that kind of function.

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On 15 Sep 2004, at 17:38, Pablo d'Angelo wrote:

>
>> Enblend, of which I found GUI tool and executable, Xblend
>> (http://www.kekus.com/xblend/), has option in nona stitching panel, 
>> but
>> has never been selectable. This one should be able to deal in the same
>> way as windows does.
>
> Hmm, it is used by default, if "high quality tiff" is selected.. Or
> it can be selected manually, when using nona with TIFF output.
>
>> I tried out Xblend with multi-tiff stitched panorama image. It 
>> returned
>> me the error exactly same as I got with using hugin compiled with
>> libtiff without lzw-compression-kit. Not only Xblend but many other
>> applications can't open tiff internally compressed. Is it possible to
>> use libtiff without compressing option? It is more standard way of
>> using libtiff, I suppose.
>
> Well, its just a matter if the libtiff that was used for enblend 
> supports
> compressed tif's. Which it really should (maybe not LZW, but at least
> Deflate and some others..). If not enblend should be linked against a
> libtiff that supports compression.
>
> How do you create the lzw tiffs? Nona doesn't create LZW tiffs, but 
> uses
> Deflate.