Opening .tif file

Is it possible to open a .tif image file with labview...if so...how?
Thanks,
Azazal
Azazel
Pentium 4, 3.6GHz, 2 GB Ram, Labview 8.5, Windows XP, PXI-5122, PCI-6259, PCI-6115

The easiest way (from a programming standpoint) is to get the NI Vision Development Module.
You can write your own as well.   See here and here and here
You have to keep in mind that the TIFF image format is VERY flexible and a piece of code that understands all the possible permutations of that format is a quite impressive piece of work. If you need code that'll understand many of the formats, bite the bullet and spend the money for the NI add-on. If you only need to read one particular format then you can code up something like in this example (which understand just one format).
There's an example of this found here
(I've attached a LV v7.1.1 LLB which I have used in the past that is based on that example).
Keep in mind that after you do get an array of bytes from the file, you cannot convert that array to display in the "picture" indicator that ships with LabVIEW without the Vision add-on. You can use the intensity graph however.
Good Luck!
Attachments:
Read TIFF Image Data.zip ‏118 KB

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