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On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:18:14PM -0700, Ken deKlerk wrote:
> I am fairly new to libtiff but I have been asked to make a program to
> combine multiple number of tiffs into one tiff, allowing different
> placement of the tiffs and sizing.  I've found a few good sites to get
> me started but none that deal with streaming multiple tiffs into one.
> The basic layout of the program (C/C++) is:
> 
>             1) get number of tiffs
> 
>             2) Read in tiffs (sizes, and other header format)
> 
>             3) Get desired position of tiffs in new image
> 
>             4) Convert tiffs to desired size and common format (colour, grey
> or b+w)
> 
>             5) Make one tiff, stream in tiff information where needed
> 
>             6) Save the tiff
> 
>  
> 
> The tiffs that are being read in are fairly large, can be black +
> white or colour and of varying resolution.  This is a big task for a
> newbie and any help would be appreciated and any recommendations in
> reading would also be apprecitated

ImageMagick contains montage utility which is aimed for that purpose.
But I'm suspecting it's source code is not easy reading (also I don't
know how effectively it works for large images).

						Andrey

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