RE: ImagePlus VisualInfo Scanning on AS/400-

["Bob Crothers" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randy,

Yes.  I have it running on OS/400.  It wasn't hard, but did take a little
bit of effort.

First, I dumped the make files.

I also created a TIF_A400 member with the as/400 specific procedures like
_tiffReadProc, _tiffWriteProc, _tiffSeekProc,  TIFFMalloc, etc.

Seems like there some things I did to the header files also.  It has been
about 4 years since I did the port.

If this code would help you,  I could send you some source (privately).

As a bonus, it has a routine that converts from 200, 300 or 400 DPI TIFF to
200 DPI DCX.  We are a fax vendor and our native format is DCX.  But image
vendors use TIFF.

Also, I saw this morning in the News/400 Tips & Techniques about zipping,
they talked about ZLIB.  I have also ported that to the /400...and it was
VERY easy.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Randy Dufault
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 2:25 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: ImagePlus VisualInfo Scanning on AS/400

Bob,

I've used Tifflib on other platforms, have you compiled it on OS/400? We
made a half-hearted attempt once but its makefiles are a bit Unix specific
and the need wasn't great enough to offset the effort to make it work.

Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Crothers [mailto:bob@cstoneindy.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 6:23 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: ImagePlus VisualInfo Scanning on AS/400
>
>
>
> <snip>Tiff images are sooo easy to split up.<snip>
>
> I agree.
>
> There is a rather good & free tiff library available,
> including source code
> by Sam Leffler.  I believe the name of it is TiffLib.  Search
> the web and
> you should be able to find it.  I don't remember where I
> downloaded it from.
>
> The code is in ANSI C and ports to the as/400 very easy.
>
> TiffLib then gives you full manipulation.  You can split up
> pages, change
> compression algorithms, get the to the actual bitmaps, etc, etc.
>
> But, you will need an ILE/C compiler.
>
> Regards,
> Bob Crothers
> Cornerstone Communications
> www.theunifier.com and www.faxserver401.com
> Voice: 317-802-0107 Ext 103
> Fax:    317-803-3450
>
>
>
>
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