Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:25:50 -0500

On 3/20/12 8:03 AM, Mark Rivers wrote:
> Hi Tim (and tech-talkers),
> 
> I know you've done quite a bit with TIFF files, so I've got a question for you.
> 
> The areaDetector NDFileTIFF plugin can write 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit TIFF files.  All of them can be read fine by ImageJ and IDL.  However, the 32-bit TIFFs cannot be read by the Python Imaging Library (PIL).  But 32-bit TIFF files written by the Dectris Pilatus driver can be read by PIL.
> 
> Do you have any idea what needs to be done to make a 32-bit TIFF readable by PIL?

Hi, Mark.

Part of the problem is that the generic PIL.Image.open method
discards exceptions from the image format handlers so the
exception you get is not a very useful one.  You can get a
better exception by using the TiffImagePlugin directly to open
the image which is what is handling TIFF images by default in
PIL 1.1.7.  Here's what I get with Python 2.7.2:

===
>>> import PIL.TiffImagePlugin
f = PIL.TiffImagePlugin.TiffImageFile(fp="/tmp/im.tif")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File
"/opt3/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py",
line 91, in __init__
    self._open()
  File
"/opt3/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/TiffImagePlugin.py",
line 528, in _open
    self._seek(0)
  File
"/opt3/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/TiffImagePlugin.py",
line 556, in _seek
    self._setup()
  File
"/opt3/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/TiffImagePlugin.py",
line 637, in _setup
    raise SyntaxError, "unknown pixel mode"
SyntaxError: unknown pixel mode
===

So it seems to be unhappy about the pixel mode.

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System