I hope it's okay to ask this here. The use of tifftopnm and pnmtotiff was suggested in an earlier thread about stripping color profiles from TIFF images.
Below I show tiffinfo before and after processing, as well as the tifftopnm and the pnmtotiff processes. ?? On the pnmtotiff, it said: pnmtotiff: computing colormap... pnmtotiff: Too many colors - proceeding to write a 24-bit RGB file. pnmtotiff: If you want an 8-bit palette file, try doing a 'ppmquant 256'. What does this mean.... Too many colors?? And of what significance might this be to me? I was previously told that this process clips colors but that Gimp does too so there would really be about the same result. What I don't understand is what colors it is getting rid of. (When I look at the before and after images, they look the same to me.) ?? This process also got rid of the "Photoshop Data" in this old file. I have no idea what that extra data was. Any idea what Photoshop might have added -- I don't put comments into my images. Does it leave empty space for comments even though you did not use comments? The process did cut the file size from 2,850,625 to 2,844,590 which change is LESS than the total of the ICC Profile and the Photoshop Data that were present in the original. It got rid of them, but did not quite reclaim all the space. ========== tiffinfo BEFORE processing #: /q/images/jsa/source$ tiffinfo 00*tif 0001a_1st-issue_110001.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field "MinSampleValue" (1, expecting 3); tag ignored. 0001a_1st-issue_110001.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field "MaxSampleValue" (1, expecting 3); tag ignored. TIFF Directory at offset 0x8 (8) Subfile Type: (0 = 0x0) Image Width: 877 Image Length: 1080 Resolution: 300, 300 pixels/inch Bits/Sample: 8 Compression Scheme: None Photometric Interpretation: RGB color Samples/Pixel: 3 Rows/Strip: 1080 Planar Configuration: single image plane Photoshop Data: <present>, 5748 bytes ICC Profile: <present>, 3144 bytes ========== tifftopnm #: /q/images/jsa/source$ tifftopnm 0001* > stuff.pnm 0001a_1st-issue_110001.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field "MinSampleValue" (1, expecting 3); tag ignored. 0001a_1st-issue_110001.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field "MaxSampleValue" (1, expecting 3); tag ignored. tifftopnm: writing PPM file =========== pnnmtotiff #: /q/images/jsa/source$ pnmtotiff stuff.pnm > stuff-after-pnm.tif pnmtotiff: computing colormap... pnmtotiff: Too many colors - proceeding to write a 24-bit RGB file. pnmtotiff: If you want an 8-bit palette file, try doing a 'ppmquant 256'. ========== tiffinfo AFTER processing #: /q/images/jsa/source$ tiffinfo stuff*tif TIFF Directory at offset 0x2b5b90 (2841488) Image Width: 877 Image Length: 1080 Bits/Sample: 8 Compression Scheme: None Photometric Interpretation: RGB color FillOrder: msb-to-lsb Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs Samples/Pixel: 3 Rows/Strip: 3 Planar Configuration: single image plane DocumentName: stuff.pnm ImageDescription: converted PNM file _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
