[Zope] Re: CMF Photo Album + "Raw" Image Formats

[Tom Purl]

Thanks for all of your tips!  I really appreciate the guidance.

Jonathan Cyr wrote:
> Two Cents,
> 
> TIFF images are lossless, and popular, but don't display in a browser.  
> TIFF is also splintered as a file format, talk to a graphic designer, 
> TIFF has changed over the last ten years, and most apps allow for the 
> various forms.  You might want to start with TIFFs in your xsane scanner 
> app.
> 
> As an archive, I would use JPG... it's lossy (by combining like colors), 
> but if you specifically set it to 100%, you should get no compression.  
> It's also a well defined, cross platform, standard.
> 
> Although Zope/Plone will store any type of image data, only certain 
> types will display in a browser, and only certain types can be 
> converted, whether it be by PIL or ImageMagick.  I'm not familiar with 
> PNM files... it may be raw, but certainly not mainstream, at least not 
> yet... make sure PIL or ImageMagick supports this.
> 
> BTW, you'll probably get better answers on the Plone Mailing List, for 
> Plone products using Plone & CMF... more folks there will be using your 
> setup.
> 
> -Jon Cyr
> 
> Tom Purl wrote:
> 
>> I'm a newb when it comes to archiving images, so any help you can give 
>> me would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> I want to use Plone as a content management system (CMS) my images, 
>> which are currently stored on my hard drive as PNM files.  These files 
>> are scanned copies of 4x6 images, and are usually ~6 MB in size.  I am 
>> using Plone 2.0.4 with CMF Photo Album/Photo 0.5.0 and  pil 1.1.4.  I 
>> use the PNM file format for my pictures because it's the "rawest" 
>> format that I can use with xsane (I also use Gentoo Linux).
>>
>> When I upload my pictures in the PNM format to Plone, I'm not able to 
>> see them.  I then tried converting the image (using convert) to a tiff 
>> file (since that's also pretty "raw", right?) and uploading it. 
>> However, I'm still not able to see the image in my cmf photo album.  I 
>> ended up converting it to a bitmap, and I'm able to see that in my album.
>>
>> Is the bmp file format considered a "raw" format?  I would like to 
>> keep it as raw as possible so that I can use (or at least convert) my 
>> images 50 years from now.  Is there a better format to use?
>>
>> I'm using plone as my CMS because I want to attach metadata to my 
>> images.  Is anyone else using a different free program that works 
>> better than this solution?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Tom Purl
>>
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