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According to the Rev manual, the tiff image format is not directly supported. Is this correct?

I'm new to Rev, and have yet to even try it; but, I have been reading the manual. Apparently, one can use a Quicktime container object to reference a tiff; however, that seems "unnatural," especially considering that other development tools have this capability.

Perplexed at Rev's strange lack of support for a well-documented and used file format, I researched Apple's AppleScript developers' site. Interestingly enough, I discovered that AppleScript can access "Image Events" using the in-built Core Services. These Image Events can provide access to many file formats including tiff and even Photoshop! Very cool.

Knowing this, would there be a way for Rev on OS X to support the additional formats provided to it by the Core Services that are built into the OS? Maybe this kind of feature can be provided in an add-on?

Hi redpill,

you can only display TIFF files (and ANY other format like PSD etc. that QuickTime can open!)
inside of a QuickTime player object, right!

Using "Image events" (or SIPS via shell) has nothing to do with the ability to display other formats in Rev!
You could however use it to convert TIFF to JPG or PNG files and display these in regular image objects.

Best

Klaus

Klaus wrote:You could however use it to convert TIFF to JPG or PNG files and display these in regular image objects.

Nice! Thank you for the insight. That was another aspect I didn't even consider. That would mean that my planned application could *either* reference a TIFF -- converting it on-demand -- or store (in the database) a smaller representation in a JPEG or PNG format.

Or, beyond that, one could perform any of the supported Image Event operations like cropping, flipping, etc.

Thank you, Klaus!

Hi redpill,

you're welcome!

I use SIPS via shell a lot, and it works great and very fast!


Best

Klaus