Re: Handling new image format

[John Cupitt ng-london org uk]

Hi Sylvain,

libtiff does 16 bit images, it's just gtk which is 8 bit only (at the
moment, although the API has space for 16 bit support). There are various
free scientific image processing toolkits available, so one approach would
be to pick one of those for the image handling, and hook it up to gtk for
output. The computer vision page has a long list of toolkits:

  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-source.html

Obviously I'll pimp my toolkit and gtk interface (although the gtk2 version
is still not done):

  http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

John

foret wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am writing a scientific software to analyse high resolution scanner 
> images using glib and gtk 2.
> Unfortunatelly the images are in a 16-bits gray level format which is 
> not supported by libtiff (8-bit maximum for gray level images).
> What is the best way to had support for this format (and in general to a 
> new image format) to gtk/gdk/gdk-pixbuff ?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> Sylvain



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