[mapserver-users] GDAL and binary Tiffs

[Frank Warmerdam]

Armin Burger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> with recent versions of the mapserver Win executables there is GDAL
> included. This causes binary Tiffs with G4 compression to be displayed
> completely distorted. Is it possible to have Tiffs interpreted by
> default with the standard Tiff option (not GDAL) but keeping GDAL for
> other formats like ECW?


Armin,

I discovered the bug with binary TIFF files in GDAL.  It related to files
with widths not a multiple of eight, and the extra padding included between
scanlines.  Anyways, the good news is that the bug is fixed in the GDAL CVS
tree, and in general it should be possible to use GDAL with binary TIFFs
in MapServer.

Best regards,

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