Converting images to tiled files

Utilities for use with imported images

Converting images to tiled files

Animo 2.0 has its own tiled file format for images. This splits the image into a number of tiles, each showing a small part of the full image. This tiled format has two main advantages:

It displays more quickly.

It includes registration information, so you can ensure the image will be imported at the correct position, and will not need re-positioning so that it registers correctly with other images.

You can use the maketiled utility to convert an image to the tiled file format. Its syntax is:

maketiled [-h] [-s tile_size] [-lzw|-jpeg q] [-o out_dir] images

where:

-h prints a "help" message giving more details about the options.

-s tile_size sets the size in pixels of each of the tiles.

: If you omit this option, the tile size defaults to 128 pixels.

-lzw compresses each of the tiles using LZW compression.

-jpeg compresses each of the tiles using JPEG compression, with a quality q between 100 (high) and 0 (low).

-o out_dir places the output in the directory out_dir.

: If you omit this option, the output is placed in the same directory as the TIFF file.

images is a list of the image files to convert.

Utilities for use with imported images

Converting images to tiled files