Re: [9fans] TIFF/libtiff

[lucio@proxima.alt.za]

> in /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/tiff there is a very poor tiff converter
> i started several years ago.  i only mention it because it does interface
> with page.

Does it produce Plan 9-format image files?  Right now, tiff2ps and
tiff2pdf will produce page(1) compatible outputs, but page(1) can
invoke a pipeline (the deceased tiff2pic, for example) to process what
it recognises as a TIFF file.  But tiff2ps and tiff2pdf won't do the
right thing in this case and I can't really reproduce tiff2pic, at
least not verbatim.

Also, when I tried the internal pipeline trick in the past, it turned
out not to be terribly practical when the files are in hundreds of
megapixels.  Still, suggestions are welcome, I stil don't really know
what page(1) wants to chew on, I can look at the source to figure it
out, but a few words by the right expert(s) will save a lot of
looking.

And any ideas on how to render extremely large images are also
welcome.

++L