ImageIO registering tiff

[BillyKrow]

I've been struggling with this the whole day and it can't be that difficult. I'll narrow the problem down to one line of code:

Iterator readers = ImageIO.getImageReadersByFormatName("tif");

I've seen a million examples of using this but not one of how to register the tiff image type. For me this line returns an empty iterator and if I iterate over all available types using ImageIO.getWriterFormatNames(), tiff is not among them. I've played around with putting what I think I need in the classpath for tiff classes and using ImageIO.scanForPlugins() which is supposed to search for and load image types. I can not get this to work. This can't be this difficult.

Please help!!!

 

[timw]

Are you using the JAI library? It should contain plugins for the tiff format.

http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/downloads/download-1_1_2.html

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[BillyKrow]

Actually, I had been using that library. But what I found is you also need or maybe only need the Image I/O Tools that also come with JAI and can be downloaded at:

http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/downloads/download-iio-1_1.html

 

[sedj]

Depends what SDK version you're on - javax.imageio comes standard with 1.4 +, but did not come with 1.3.

I would try using the JAI.create("fileload") method on the tiff - this would return a RenderedOp - which can be converted to a BufferedImage using RenderedOp.getAsBufferedImage() .

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[BillyKrow]

I was using 1.4 but it seems in only comes with plug-ins for bmp and jpg. The toolkit adds other image types including tiff. Anyways, it looks like I'm on my way to getting this to work now.

Thanks