Getting Tiff Image Properties

[Freedolen]

Hi,

Iam new to this forum.
I need to find the given TIFF image is in CMYK or RGB.

Though i have checked with Image::Magick, and used:

my $img = new Image::Magick;
$img->Read("Sample.tif");
my ($type) = $img->Get("type");
print $type;

It displays "TrueColor" and "Palette" for RGB and "ColorSeparatio n" for CMYK
Is there any specific property or method to find an image which is RGB or CMYK?

I have found 'colorspace' property ($rgborcmyk = $img->Get('colorspac e'); ), which tells Grayscale pictures also as RGB.

I have one more doubt also, if iam running this for collection of TIFF images, is there any need to redeclare object every for new image,(my $img = new Image::Magick; ) b'cos iam getting properties of previous image if undeclared every time.

OS: Windows 2000
Perl Version: 5.8.3

Thanks in Advance,
Freedolen

[miller]

Hi Freedolen,

Image::Magick is the only module that I'm familiar with for such processing. However, I've never tested for that particular attribute before, so I can't tell you if there is a more specific property.

I would definitely advise you to start with a fresh object for each image that you process. Unless efficiency is truly that large of a concern, there really isn't any other way to be absolutely sure that you won't be getting latent data. So I always start fresh when using any CPAN modules.

Not overly helpful, I know. But it's all the experience I have with Image::Magick specifically.

- Miller