Re: imageJ cant read tiff with packbits 32773 compression?

Posted by ctrueden on Aug 30, 2007; 5:31pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/imageJ-cant-read-tiff-with-packbits-32773-compression-tp3698499p3698500.html

Hi Dan,

The next release of Bio-Formats, available some time next week, will
support reading PackBits compressed TIFFs. Or you can use this
pre-release build, available at:

http://skyking.microscopy.wisc.edu/curtis/jar/loci_tools.jar

Cheers,
Curtis

On 8/29/07, Dan White <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> is anyone else having trouble reading TIFF files
>   that have packbits (32773) compression ?
>
> I get an error message saying
> ImageJ cannot open TIFF files compressed in this fashion (32773)
>
> according to
>
> http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf
>
> packbits should be a base standard form of tiff  compression that all
> tiff readers should be able to handle...?
>
> Is there some technical reason why imageJ cant open tiff with
> packbits compression?
> Patents/licenses?
> Or is it just a feature thats not there (yet)
>
> is there a way around it in imageJ?
>
> cheers
>
> Dan
>
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