Bug #127784 for Imager: Imager::Cookbook code for TIFFs does not work

Thu Nov 22 12:51:30 2018 jkeenan [...] pobox.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Imager::Cookbook code for TIFFs does not work
Date:	Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:51:21 -0500
To:	bug-Imager [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	James E Keenan <jkeenan [...] pobox.com>

In 'perldoc Imager::Cookbook' I read: ##### Some formats, like GIF and TIFF support multiple images per file. Use the read_multi() method to read them: my @images = Imager->read_multi(file=>$filename) or die Imager->errstr; ##### On that basis, I hoped to use Imager to convert some .tiff files into either .jpg or .png files. But was not able to even read the files, much less write them to a new format. See attachment. Running the program outputs: ##### /tmp/tiffs/test.harness.tiff /tmp/tiffs/test.simple.tiff /tmp/tiffs/test.suite.list.compare.tiff format 'tiff' not supported - formats bmp, ico, jpeg, png, pnm, raw, sgi, tga available for reading at imager-cookbook-tiffs-bug.pl line 13. ##### All 3 files are clearly viewable using the stock ImageViewer program that comes with Ubuntu. What am I missing? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

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Thu Nov 22 16:28:53 2018 tony [...] develop-help.com - Correspondence added

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Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #127784] Imager::Cookbook code for TIFFs does not work
Date:	Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:28:32 +1100
To:	James E Keenan via RT <bug-Imager [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	Tony Cook <tony [...] develop-help.com>

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 12:51:31PM -0500, James E Keenan via RT wrote: Show quoted text

> Thu Nov 22 12:51:30 2018: Request 127784 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by jkeenan@pobox.com > Queue: Imager > Subject: Imager::Cookbook code for TIFFs does not work > Broken in: (no value) > Severity: (no value) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: jkeenan@pobox.com > Status: new > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127784 > > > > In 'perldoc Imager::Cookbook' I read: > > ##### > Some formats, like GIF and TIFF support multiple images per file. Use > the read_multi() method to read them: > > my @images = Imager->read_multi(file=>$filename) > or die Imager->errstr; > ##### > > On that basis, I hoped to use Imager to convert some .tiff files into > either .jpg or .png files. But was not able to even read the files, > much less write them to a new format. See attachment. Running the > program outputs: > > ##### > /tmp/tiffs/test.harness.tiff > /tmp/tiffs/test.simple.tiff > /tmp/tiffs/test.suite.list.compare.tiff > format 'tiff' not supported - formats bmp, ico, jpeg, png, pnm, raw, > sgi, tga available for reading at imager-cookbook-tiffs-bug.pl line 13. > ##### > > All 3 files are clearly viewable using the stock ImageViewer program > that comes with Ubuntu.

Imager supports TIFF through the libtiff library, for which you don't appear to have the development libraries installed. On Ubuntu you should be able to run: sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev then either force install Imager itself which doesn't require the libraries for file support, but *does* display a summary, like: Libraries found: FT1 FT2 GIF JPEG PNG T1 TIFF Libraries *not* found: Win32 or install the separate Imager::File::TIFF distribution which will fail to install if the libraries aren't found. See Imager::Install for more details. Tony

Thu Nov 22 16:28:53 2018 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sun Jan 06 06:22:52 2019 TONYC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu Nov 22 16:28:53 2018, tony@develop-help.com wrote: Show quoted text

> Imager supports TIFF through the libtiff library, for which you don't > appear to have the development libraries installed.

Closing. Tony

Sun Jan 06 06:22:53 2019 TONYC [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'