Probably an oversight. I think the new method of specifying subimage specs up
front is relatively recent, and I bet that I fixed oiiotool but forgot to fix
iconvert in a similar way.
Which format are you trying to write?
In the mean time, can you do the conversion with oiiotool?
-- lg
On Dec 13, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Mariusz Szczepańczyk <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> why doesn't iconvert check whether the output plugin supports appending
> subimages on the fly? I'm writing an output plugin and realized that even if
> I specifically set the "appendsubimage" attribute to false, iconvert calls
> inappropriate open() function flavor when converting multi-image files, i.e.:
> open (name, spec_0, Create);
> instead of:
> open (name, 3, [spec_0, spec_1, spec_2]);
>
> I think this behavior contradicts the approach from manual in number of
> places, especially section 3.2.8 Multi-image files, p. 31.
>
> Should it be patched or is it desired behavior for some reason?
>
> Thanks,
> Mariusz
>
--
Larry Gritz
[email protected]
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