Re: Large multi-tiff files

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:22:17 +0100 (CET)
Andrea Parenti <[email protected]> wrote:
| Dear magick-users,
| 
|   I have a question about writing multi-tiff files using the MagickWand 
| interface. My understanding is that I have to:
| 
|   - initialize everything ie (MagickWandGenesis(), wand=NewMagickWand())
|   - add the images to the wand: MagickConstituteImage(wand, ...)
|   - write the file: MagickWriteImages(wand, ...)
| 
|   This is indeed working, but I get into trouble when I try to write a 
| large number of large images to a single file: all images are first stored 
| in memory (wand), then written to a file, and memory occupation starts to 
| grow. Is there any solution to this?
| 
|   Thank you very much!
| 
|   Regards,
|  	Andrea Parenti
| 
What file format?  Some file formats allow you to simply concatenate images
together to create a multi-image file.


Best idea is to post your question on the IM discussion forums
This has more users, and answers remain available for others to use.
   http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/index.php

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