Re: Opening TIFF and HPGL files using Python PIL getting IO Errors

For group4 compressed tiff files you can preprocess them  first with
tiffcp to uncompressed tiff files which PIL can open. Tiffcp exists
for all platforms (sudo apt-get install libtiff-tools on Ubuntu).

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Satya Gundapaneni
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
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>
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> I am new to Python.
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> I have a requirement to extract some portion of the image and save that
> portion.
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> After some investigation in net I found out that Python and PIL has the
> capability to crop and the image and save that image to different file.
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> But the problem I am facing is  I am not able to open TIFF and HPGL files.
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> When I try to open TIFF images I am getting  “IOError: decoder group4 not
> available”
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> While opening HPGL images I am getting “IOError: cannot identify image file”
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> Will I be able to open TIFF and HPGL files in PIL or not? All my images are
> in either TIFF or HPGL formats.
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> Appreciate your help.
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> Regards,
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> Satyanarayana Gundapaneni
>
> Zimmer Inc.
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> Warsaw, IN 46580
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