tiff support on windows

[vurentjie]

Hi,

Just want to know if I need to have a .tiff support library to view tiff images,
if I am running on windows XP. And if so where would I be locating this.

gregg

[vurentjie]

ok, I managed to locate libtiff fairly easily, does anyone know of a tutorial, or how I should link with libtiff within a php environment, whereabout would libtiff be placed.

[magick]

Take a look at MagickWand for PHP or IMagick, PHP interfaces to ImageMagick. The Windows distribution of ImageMagick includes TIFF support.

[vurentjie]

thanks for the speedy reply, i was just about to check if i mentioned windows,

well, basically, if I could get Magickwand up and running soonish, I will begin to use it, but it seems more difficult than it is supposed to be, but hopefuly I will sort out that stuff,

I think my biggest worry at the moment is that while I am developing offline and want ImageMagick running on my localhost, when it comes to uploading I might run into a couple of harrowing steps, as I am the very first persion on my service provider that is using ImageMagick, and also they are Linux based while I am sitting with my little Windows pc,

..that is going to fun.

so windows version has inbuilt tiffsupport. thanxs.

[Bonzo]

I use ImageMagick on my localhost ( I use XAMPP ). I downloaded and installed the windows exe file then had to reboot the PC and it worked straight away. I do not use tiff files so I do not know if they work or not.
I do 99% of my ImageMagick work using php and exec( ) the only thing I seem to have problems with are FX and distorts.

[vurentjie]

ok, i finally inched my way forward,

i manage to convert from another image format to .tiff,
which is actually relatively simple once i had read up a bit more,
but for some reason when i try to output ---->using pass_thru()
it asks if i want to download the file, is there a way to actually get the tiff displaying in the browser itself?

it seems tiff files are quite tricky.

[Bonzo]

Most browsers do not support tiff images and according to a Wiki page:

Most browsers support TIFF by using a plugin installed by the user