[gdal-dev] how to create an image with a colortable?

Chaitanya kumar CH chaitanya.ch at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 02:54:52 PDT 2012


Sam,

What did you do? What errors did you get?

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Samantha Goodchild-Brown <
samanthag at geograph.co.za> wrote:

> I need to change a greyscale image to Palette and specify the colors to
> use for specific values.
>
> However I am getting very confused with all the 'comments' and references
> and instructions
>
> eg.
> In " http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/**wiki/FAQRaster#**
> Howtocreateormodifyanimagecolo**rtable<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQRaster#Howtocreateormodifyanimagecolortable>"
> it is explained how to edit a VRT to make a new tif with a color palette of
> your choice.
> However in later 'fishings' I saw someone mention that this doesn't work
> and that the only way to do it is with scripting or programming.
>
> I am now also trying as it seems to be the simplest method but I am also
> failing.
>
> Other tickets etc that come close are in the region of 4 years old etc and
> way over my head.
>
> Besides the obvious (gdal error messages), can anyone tell me why this is
> happening? what I need to tweek? if a fix is on the way? is it still valid
> that the only workaround is with scripting?
> Does anyone know of another open source method that doesn't involve
> scripting?
>
> Many thanks
> Sam
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