Also look at the compression type that seems to usually be more of a hangup than the bit depth.
On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Dale Cieslak <[email protected]> wrote: > I had something similar. It all depends on whether the particular type of > TIFF is supported by the TiffImagePlugin.py module. If you have a type of > TIFF that doesn't match one of the types it supports, you're out of luck. > You can try to convert the TIFF to a different format or try to patch the > TiffImagePlugin.py module, which isn't trivial since you mentioned being new > to Python. > > Best of luck, > Dale > > On Apr 4, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Ding Wei wrote: > >> Hi there guys, >> >> I'm new to the Python and PIL. I want to open a 32 float tiff file with pil. >> But I always get a error like this: >> >> raise IOError("cannot identify image file") >> IOError: cannot identify image file >> >> I tried two different method to do the open: >> >> 1. >> import Image >> im = Image.open(’test.tif‘) >> >> 2. >> import Image >> fp = open(’test.tif‘, ’rb’) >> im = Image.open(fp) >> >> 8 bit RGB file works just fine, but neither 16bit or 32 bit can be opened. >> >> Did I do something wrong? >> >> Thank you for your help! >> _______________________________________________ >> Image-SIG maillist - [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig > > _______________________________________________ > Image-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
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