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- > Dear Sir(s),
- >
- > We are using xtiff program (from contrib of Sam Leffler's software on
- > TIFF v3.3 ) to view TIFF images.For some images it is displaying the contents
- > without any problems (They happen to be of Bits/Sample = 1) but for the other
- > we are not able to view the image (They are of Bits/Sample = 8) instead we are
- > getting the following error.
- >
- > xtiff: 24-bit DirectColor visual not available
- >
- > We would be grateful to you if you can help us out of this problem.
- >
- > Thanking you, and awaiting for your reply
- >
- What kind of graphics hardware do you have. 8 bits/sample with 3 samples
- per pixel(i.e. RGB) will need 24 bitplanes to display. xtiff is requesting
- a 24 bit Truecolor X visual from your X server and your X server is saying
- it doesn't have one.
-
- On SGI hardware if you don't have 24 bitplanes we use dithering to
- approximate a 24 bit Truecolor visual so xtiff will work on all our systems
- though the image will not be of the highest quality on 8 bit machines.
-
- If your on an 8 bit system(not an SGI) without dithering capability 24 bit
- Truecolor is not be an option. Systems like this usually only offer
- Psuedocolor visuals which use a color map (256 entries on an 8 bit system).
- Some viewers can attempt to map the colors in the Truecolor image to the
- available 256 colormap entries but this usually results in a serious
- degradation in the image.
-
- You can run xdpyinfo on your machine and if you don't see any Truecolor
- visuals then the problem is your lacking the graphics hardware or X
- server software for this capibility. This is a typical 24 bit Truecolor
- visual in xdpyinfo:
-
- visual:
- visual id: 0x2e
- class: TrueColor
- depth: 24 planes
- available colormap entries: 256 per subfield
- red, green, blue masks: 0xff, 0xff00, 0xff0000
- significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
-
- This is a typical Psuedocolor entry:
-
- visual:
- visual id: 0x25
- class: PseudoColor
- depth: 8 planes
- available colormap entries: 256
- red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
- significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
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- Ed Millard
- Silicon Graphics Inc.
- Developer's Support Group
- millard@sgi.com
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