Image format support in OpenInsight 10
Published 23 JAN 2013 at 06:00:18AM
Updated on 08 JAN 2013 at 06:00:18AM
16-bit and 32-bit versions of OpenInsight have historically used a 3rd party library (ImageMan) for handling various image formats, mainly due to the lack of inbuilt support in Windows itself when the OpenInsight tool-set was first developed.
Unfortunately with the move to a 64-bit version of OpenInsight there is no 64-bit version of the ImageMan library available, but Windows itself now offers excellent image format support as part of the platform, so with version 10 we'll be taking advantage of the WIC (Windows Imaging Component) libraries to provide support for the following popular formats:
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More information on the WIC can be found here.
(Disclaimer: This article is based on preliminary information and may be subject to change in the final release version of OpenInsight 10).
Comments
At 23 JAN 2013 10:02AM Captain C wrote:
Yes - the image formats don't change between 32 and 64-bit. OI 10 is just using a different set of image libraries to access them (we just won't be supporting some of the more obscure formats that ImageMan did).
At 23 JAN 2013 09:53AM Chris Meyer wrote:
Wlll version 10 image format be compatible with 32 bit systems?