[ptx] lzw compression unavailable due to unisys patent enforcement

[Bruno Postle]

On Wed 26-Jul-2006 at 13:33 +0300, Rich wrote:

> have i missed something ? at which point has this been disabled ? did 
> unisys approach hugin developers ?

No, this is a problem with the version of libtiff on your system.  
Most recent distributions have LZW compression enabled since the 
patents have expired.

> how does deflate compare to lzw ?

Deflate is generally better in my experience.

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Bruno