🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi fellow programmers,

Simply put, what's the best way to convert from one TIFF data format into  
another?  Specifically, I'm writing an application that I would like to  
have accept TIFFs of (almost) any flavor,  
meshed/planar/RGB/CMYK/GrayScale/Alpha/non-alpha/etc... and convert them  
into a single format that I can work with: RGB w/ alpha.

Yes, I can punch the code out to reformat the different data types, but it  
seems to me that with all of the NeXT's support for TIFFs, there should be  
a fairly straightforward way of doing this.  I've tried doing the  
following, but with no success:

- Create a new NXBitmapImageRep of the desired format type
- Create an NXImage that uses the new ImageRep ("useRepresentation:")
- LockFocus on the NXImage
- Use the NXImageBitmap() function to draw the source TIFF data into the  
NXImage, (and subsequently into the NXBitmapImageRep in theory)
- UnlockFocus
- The NXBitmapImageRep should contain the reformatted data, right?

.. doesn't seem to work.
Anyway, any light you can throw on this subject will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Robert Kieffer
kieffer@spf.trw.com

P.S. Ali, thanks for answering my question Re: meshed .vs. planar formats.