If you're on a Mac you can script Image Events to convert the file from TIFF
to PNG (or whatever) for you first.
Here's a script I used to convert .icn files to .png files that would
probably work just as well (with only minor modification) for TIFFs
FUNCTION createFileFromIcon pSourceIconPath, pDestFilePath, pIconSize,
pReturnImageData
IF not (there is a file pDestFilePath) THEN
put empty into url ("file:"&pDestFilePath)
IF not (there is a file pDestFilePath) THEN
return "Error: couldn't create output file"
END IF
END IF
put revMacFromUnixPath(pSourceIconPath) into pSourceIconPath
put revMacFromUnixPath(pDestFilePath) into pDestFilePath
put "tell application 'Image Events'" &cr&\
"launch" &cr&\
"set theIcon to open file '[[pSourceIconPath]]'" &cr&\
"scale theIcon to size [[pIconSize]]" &cr&\
"save theIcon as PNG in file '[[pDestFilePath]]' without icon" &cr&\
"close theIcon" &cr&\
"end tell" into tScript
put merge(tScript) into tScript
replace "'" WITH quote in tScript
do tScript as AppleScript
put revUnixFromMacPath(pDestFilePath) into pDestFilePath
IF pReturnImageData THEN
IF there is a file pDestFilePath THEN
put url ("binfile:"&pDestFilePath) into tImageData
return tImageData
ELSE
return "Error: couldn't create output file"
END IF
ELSE
return the result
END IF
END createFileFromIcon
Regards,
Terry...
On 7/04/11 11:50 AM, "Sivakatirswami" <ka...@hindu.org> wrote:
>
> I suppose this is very old ground and it's "just not going to happen."
>
> but I hit a wall today because LiveCode cannot import TIFF files.
>
> (big project of scans... most scanners default to .tiff format)
>
> I could not even find a feature request in the QA center.
>
> Did anyone do an external for tiff import?
>
> Sivakatirswami
>
>
>
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