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In article <wdstULS00UhW89Cl1w@andrew.cmu.edu>, Jason Andrew Barshay 
<jb6o+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I am trying to display a raster in IV.  The format for an image in the
> raster class is a TIFF file.  The original image I had was in GIF
> format.  I converted it to TIFF only to realize how enormous color TIFF
> format files were (since color TIFF supports 24 bit color).  A file of
> the size that resulted from the TIFF format conversion is very
> undesirable.  Is there any other format image that can be displayed in
> IV?  How have people in the past who have wanted to display color TIFF
> images in IV dealt with this problem?  The resolution I am going to be
> displaying my image at is only 8 bit color so it would be desirable to
> find a way to store the image in other than the color TIFF format and
> still display.  Any information or experience would be greatly
> appreciated.

TIFF includes palette (i.e. GIF-style) images.  You can convert GIF
to TIFF w/ minor size difference.  Try getting the tools that go with
the TIFF support from the location below -- there is a gif2tiff program
included.

	Sam

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How To Obtain This Software (in case all you get is this file)

The software is available for public ftp on
    sgi.com                     graphics/tiff/v3.0.tar.Z
        (192.48.153.1)
    ucbvax.berkeley.edu         pub/tiff/v3.0.tar.Z
        (128.32.130.12)

For example,
    ftp -n sgi.com
    ....
    user anonymous
    ... <type in password>
    cd graphics/tiff
    binary
    get v3.0.tar.Z

The software comes in a compressed tar file.  To extract the
information:
    zcat v3.0.tar.Z | tar xf -
(uncompress and extract individual files in current directory).

There is also a companion compressed tar file, v3.0pics.tar.Z
that has sample TIFF image files.  These are mostly useful in
testing the software if/when you port it to an unsupported system.