LZW with TIFF files... Soon?

[probegt93]

Now that the patents are expiring on the LZW compression, will we see this in the software? I am looking forward to this so I can save a good amount of space.

Thank You,
Tom

[NITeam]

It is possible. We have several items in our current to-do list and will consider whether to implement LZW support in the near future.

Vlad

[Trevor Morris]

Oh, I too would really like this! I save all of my TIFFs as LZW compressed (due to smaller file size), but I have to remember to resave them as uncompressed TIFFs for use with NeatImage.

[Leo]

I would like to add my vote to this also. I store all files as LZW tiffs and it would be nice to open/save them as such from NI.

[greenboy]

PNG with its six filtered/compressed options (as long as you are in 24-bit or less) is nice too : }

[andewid]

PNG with its six filtered/compressed options (as long as you are in 24-bit or less) is nice too : }

PNG support at least 16bits per channel, including the alpha channel. That would mean 48 or 64bits per pixel.

[linux-works]

Now that the patents are expiring on the LZW compression, will we see this in the software? I am looking forward to this so I can save a good amount of space.

Thank You,
Tom

I thought the patent was only to restrict ENCODING. decoding was always free, yes?

(the magic, like mp3, is in the encoding/compression. decompression is always easier)

/bryan