[vtkusers] vtkTIFFReader

[Robert Haines]

On 7 Apr 2009, at 15:15, Sean McBride wrote:

> On 4/7/09 9:12 AM, Robert Haines said:
>
>>> I've tried to build vtk with the system's libtiff.so (which is  
>>> 3.8.2)
>>> but this didn't change anything.
>
> VTK is also using 3.8.2.  So it could still be a bug in libTIFF 3.8.2.
>
>> I would have thought that 64bit
>> machines have been around for long enough now that it shouldn't be a
>> 64bit issue though!
>
> On Mac OS X with gcc, libTIFF does not even compile without warning in
> 64 bit.  A 64 bit bug would not surprise me at all.

Ah. Well I'm ever the optimist! :-)

In Ubuntu 8.04 GIMP does not link against libTIFF so GIMP may well  
have its own TIFF code that works better.

Can you load these TIFFs with ImageMagick? The program to use is  
called display and does link against libtiff on my system.

Cheers,
Rob