Re: [PanoTools-devel] Re:PTMender and Pano12.dll Updates

[Max L. <max...@ve...>]

>  Max> Photoshop doesn't know about (as far as I'm aware) "cropped TIFFs".  Photoshop 
>  Max> just reads the physical dimensions of the TIFF fils and ignores the offset 
>  Max> data. Software has to be coded to read this offset data and deal with it 
>  Max> intelligently.  Enblend does this, but Photoshop doesn't.
> 
> MMmm, this is bad news for 16 bit tiffs. Perhaps I'll implement a
> "uncropper" tool that fixes this problem.

It shouldn't be hard...I wrote one a while ago, but can't seem to find the code 
at the moment.

It is probably worth building in the "uncropper" function into pano tools 
(rather than making it a standalone tool).  If so, then "cropped tiffs" can be 
used as the intermediate format for everything, even for "full size layered 
tiff" output.  The processing would be done on the cropped images, and then the 
"uncropping" would happen at the very last stage...just before the final image 
is written (or even, while the final image is being written).

Currently there is some if/else logic that determines whether to work with 
cropped or full size tiffs as the intermediate format depending on the desired 
output format.  This could be removed if the "uncropper" was added.

Max