Re: Cannot load TIFF image

[Kees Kling <ckling upcmail nl>]

Hi murray,

thanks for your reply, but meanwhile I took another approach and build 
an internal buffer. So I can load the image and create the pixbuf with 
the function creae_from_data and this works very well

regards

Kees Kling


On 05/02/2011 12:03 PM, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 14:23 +0200, Kees Kling wrote:
> > I'm trying to load an display TIFF images via a Gdk::Pixbuff
> >
> > Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Pixbuf>  img =
> > Gdk::Pixbuf::create_from_file("bluemarble2_1_4.tif");
> >
> > It doesn't work and gives me the following errors
> >
> > (proj:24131): glibmm-CRITICAL **:
> > unhandled exception (type Glib::Error) in signal handler:
> Note that you could handle the exception with a try/catch block.
>
> > domain: gdk-pixbuf-error-quark
> > code  : 0
> > what  : Failed to load image
> > '/home/kling/bluemarble/4/bluemarble2_1_4.tif': Failed to open TIFF image
> >
> >
> > The image exist and is displayable in Gimp. Only gimp gives we the warning
> >
> > "/home/kling/bluemarble/4/bluemarble2_1_4.tif: invalid TIFF directory;
> > tags are not sorted in ascending order"
> >
> > This warning has nothing to do with the image itself, but with the
> > METAdata. Is this the problem and if can I still load the image
> This is really a question for the GTK+ developers.
>
> You might also try the eog image viewer, which presumably uses the same
> GTK+ code to load images.