[ptx] multiple tiffs + compression

Bruno Postle bruno at postle.net
Sat Sep 24 14:37:13 BST 2005


On Sat 24-Sep-2005 at 13:47 +0200, Michal Bulik wrote:
> 
> By looking into the code I've found that I can change the compression
> flag from NONE to LZW or DEFLATE in the .pto file by hand, but I
> don't think many users will try to do that. Don't you it might be
> useful to create by default compressed TIFF files and/or add access
> to TIFF compression options in the GUI ?

The problem is that some distributions ship libtiff without LZW
enabled because of patent issues (though the worldwide LZW patent
expired last year).

-- 
Bruno


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