Hmm... that's unfortunate. What platform are you on? If Windows, then I believe that PIL is statically linked against LibTIFF and that particular libtiff wasn't compiled with certain options (CCITT formats or something.) (in 1999 that was true, I found a post from Fred here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/1999-June/000755.html)
If it's a one-time thing, there are ways of converting the TIFF to a different encoding. I use the libtiff tifftools command tiffcp: tiffcp -c none infile.tif out file.tif which will decode into a non-compressed tiff. Otherwise, you might be out of luck (or have to change some of the libtiff options.) If you put your tiff file somewhere where I can download it, I'll try reading it with the alternatives that I have on my system and let you know what works... -Jim On 14 Jun 2005 05:25:46 -0700, PyPK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get a decoder error when i do a get pixel on the Image > > >>> im.getpixel((12,34)) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > File "Image.py", line 858, in getpixel > self.load() > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line > 180, in load > d = Image._getdecoder(self.mode, d, a, self.decoderconfig) > File "Image.py", line 328, in _getdecoder > raise IOError("decoder %s not available" % decoder_name) > IOError: decoder group4 not available > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list