Re: Wrong bit depth of 8bit IndexedTIFF file

Amodio Alessandro <[email protected]> Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:03:22 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.image-magick.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Il giorno 06/giu/09, alle ore 17:40, [email protected] 
  ha scritto:

>> but it should be:
>> Depth: 8-bit
>>   Channel depth:
>>     color: 8-bit
>
> Why?

Because is a colormap image and it hasn't 3 channels. Am I wrong?


>> It should be very useful to change the output into these labels:
>> - Depth -> BitsPerSample
>> - Channel depth -> SamplesPerPixel
>
> Our concern is that any change will break existing scripts and the  
> change
> does not have merit.  Image depth and bits per sample can be  
> interchanged, the
> same for channel depth and samples per pixel.

How about adding a section (NISOMETADATA) at the end of the output  
with a NISO complying data set?