Tiff raster pictures

[imap at chesapeake.net]

I think the jpeg support is currently limited to input only, but it would
be great to render 24-bit TIFFs.  By the time you whack a 24-bit image
to 8-bits...  It doesnt look so great anymore.

Adobe Illustrator has the ablility to zoom into a 24-bit TIFF 
without pixelization or distortion of any kind.  The output is
really nice.... I was hoping to see a similar functionality
is some other free graphic package like ImageMagick or GIMP.  

Is it libtiff's limitation to do < 8-bit images, or what?  
PNG is a output option, but JPEG would be nice too.    While on the topic
of wants...  Does anyone know of a public b-spline routine for multipoint
labelling?  Or perhaps another algorithm that might work?

Regards,

-Chris



"Peter H.M. Jacobs" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> does anyone know if it is poosible to render 24-bit TIF files instead of the
> 8-bit raster files?
> Is it perhaps possible with the jpeg library?
> People then have the possibility to choose between a very sharp but slow
> picture or a less sharp but faster picture.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Jacobs

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Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
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