Hi, I've just had some problems with PIL's implementation of the Image.save() method when writing TIFF files. Apparently some internal tags on resolution are totally out of the normal. Using the TIFFs from libtiff later on produces some warning on a tag with bad information.
This is what libtiff's warning handler produces: _TIFFVSetField: diag.tif: Bad value 47088 for "ResolutionUnit". diag.tif: Warning, "YResolution": Information lost writing value (-2.94176e-05) as (unsigned) RATIONAL. According to Graeme Gill's information (who implements Argyll CMS, that's using libtiff for its purposes) """ [...] According to the TIFF spec, the ResolutionUnit tag can have one of three values: (From tiff/libtiff/tiff.h) #define TIFFTAG_RESOLUTIONUNIT 296 /* units of resolutions */ #define RESUNIT_NONE 1 /* no meaningful units */ #define RESUNIT_INCH 2 /* english */ #define RESUNIT_CENTIMETER 3 /* metric */ """ It seems like the implementation in PIL.Image for save() puts a non standard value (here 47088) into the field ResolutionUnit, and there also seems to be something funny with the YResolution field in the TIFF file. To me this very much sounds like an issue with uninitialised variables in some structures, as the values tend to be different on different runs, as well as the fact that they're well out of whack indicates this. Guy -- Guy K. Kloss Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences Te Kura Putaiao o Mohiohio me Pangarau Room 2.63, Quad Block A Building Massey University, Auckland, Albany Private Bag 102 904, North Shore Mail Centre voice: +64 9 414-0800 ext. 9585 fax: +64 9 441-8181 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.massey.ac.nz/~gkloss/
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