Re: [Gimp-developer] High bit depth processing

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

If it's making you swear using words that Alexandre can't understand,
then the code must be elegant indeed. :)

Is there is something one should know about the interaction with gegl
for loading tiff or everything is contained in file-tiff-load.c?

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Simon Budig <simon budig de> wrote:
> Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre prokoudine gmail com) wrote:
>> 16bit PNG can be loaded and saved
>> EXR opens as 32bit float, but is saved with 16bit precision.
>
> Also .hdr files are handled by file-gegl as well.
>
>> Simon already evaluated porting TIFF loader to GEGL, but I couldn't
>> understand a single word through lots of swearing in German, and
>> that's after having studied German since I was a lad :) The general
>> idea, however (if I got it right), is that the file format is messy,
>> so is the original code. In other words, it will take some time to get
>> this done. As usual, patches are welcome.
>
> Yeah, I did a stab in the general direction of the tiff plugin, but the
> TIFF library is quite twisted in its ways. I'll have a look at it again,
> but If someone else wants to take a shot at it please go ahead, I am not
> too eager...  :)
>
> Bye,
>        Simon
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