Re: [pygame] BUG: pygame.image.save and tiff files.

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think it would be possible to add tiff write support... since we
link with libtiff.  Much in the same way png, and jpg writing is
supported.

I guess we should add .jpeg detection to there as well.

cu.


On Jan 30, 2008 8:16 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Marcus von Appen wrote:
> > On, Tue Jan 29, 2008, Ian Mallett wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On 1/29/08, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I gather pygame.image.save does not support writing tiff files. Yet it
> >>> permits a file with a '.tif' suffix to be written. The file is just in
> >>> some unknown image format.
> >>>
> >> I think that if it does not recognise the extension, it saves it as a
> >> tga.  I've never tried to save as .tif, but I suspect that it would
> >> save your surface as a .tga file, but with the original filename with
> >> a .tif extension.
> >>
> >> eg. Surface + 'Surface.tif' -> 'Surface.tif' (TGA image file)
> >>
> >
> > Yes. The suffix will remain. You even can use foo.barbaz as image and it
> > still will be in TGA format, which is used as catchall for unrecognized
> > formats. However, the code needs a bit refining (each filename ending on
> > a 'p' will be saved as BMP), so I'll add that to the docs, when I'm
> > improving the filetype recognition.
> >
> >
> Good. As long as it is documented that an unrecognized ending will
> default to tga. Personally I did not expect tiff output support. I just
> wanted to see if it would raise an exception for an unsupported type was
> specified. I suppose it also explains why a ".jpeg" is not, in fact, a JPEG.
>
> --
>
> Lenard Lindstrom
> <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>
>
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