Is overlay over compressed TIFF supported?
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Is overlay over compressed TIFF supported?
I have a high resolution TIFF image that is LZW-compressed; I want to draw upon it and save it compressed. Since the compression takes much more time than I would expect, I wonder if I could just overlay the drawing without touching the data of the page. I suppose the answer is negative since I could find no provision for such a feat in the specification; however, I decided to ask just to make sure it is not supported because it would be awesome if it were.
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Re: Is overlay over compressed TIFF supported?
There is no way to draw, or otherwise modify a compressed image. Generally IM will uncompress the image, do all operations, the re-compress using the same settings as the original, unless told otherwise.
Yes compression, especially level 9 compression does take a good amount of time.
Yes compression, especially level 9 compression does take a good amount of time.
Anthony Thyssen -- Webmaster for ImageMagick Example Pages
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