pyramidtiff

Overview

pyramidtiff is a command line tool which takes an image file (jpg, tif, png or bmp) and creates a multi resolution tif file with tiles. Such tif files can be used by high resolution image viewers like iipimage to quickly zoom into a huge images.

Getting pyramidtif

The source is on lazarus-ccr and requires at least fpc 2.7.1:

svn co https://lazarus-ccr.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lazarus-ccr/applications/pyramidtiff pyramidtiff

Usage and parameters

-c <input file>
   Check if file is a pyramid, tiled tif. 0 = yes, 1 = no.
-i <input file>
   Input image file can be a: jpg;jpeg png bmp tif;tiff
-o <output file>
   Output image file. It will always be a tif file, no matter what extension it has.
--width=<tilewidth>
   In pixel. Default=256
--height=<tileheight>
   In pixel. Default=256
--min-size=<min size>
   Create no images with a smaller width or height than this value in pixel.
   Default=32
-h or --help
   Write this help
-q or --quiet
   Be less verbose
-v or --verbose
   Be more verbose
-V or --version
   Write version.

Examples

Convert input.jpg into output.tif:

pyramidtiff -i input.jpg -o output.tif

Check if file.tif is already a pyramid, tiled tif:

pyramidtiff -c file.tif

Execute a command if a file is a pyramid, tiled tif:

pyramidtiff -c file.tif && echo file.tif is a pyramid, tiled tif