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

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

ah ok, cool.

Do you need tiff saving for some reason?  I guess it's probably not a
priority for pygame 1.8 release... just something nice to have.





On Jan 30, 2008 3:47 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, I will try adding tiff support. The tiff format has many options,
> so I will have to decide which ones to use.
>
> Lenard
>
>
>
> René Dudfield wrote:
> > If you'd like to add tiff write support, that'd be great.  Is that
> > what you were talking about looking into?
> >
> >
> > On Jan 30, 2008 8:38 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I can look into it if you wish. As for JPEG, on Windows both the .jpg
> >> and .jpeg endings are used. So it is confusing if writing a .jpeg file
> >> fails when .jpg succeeds. It gives the impression that JPEG output is
> >> not supported.
> >>
> >> Lenard
> >>
> >>
> >> René Dudfield wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
>
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