'''tkimggdal''' is a photo image format handler using the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL).GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats released by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (see http://www.gdal.org/). 

The two main features of this handler are:
   * Provides access to all the raster formats supported by the GDAL library which includes standard types of images such as TIF, PNG, GIF, JPG as well as popular GIS formats such as ECW (ERMapper Compressed Wavelets) and MrSID (Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database). For a full list checkout http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html.

   * Unlike Tk's builtin handlers and those in the Img extension, it is very quick at reading subsections of very large image files because the GDAL library doesn't read the entire image into memory.

For more details check out http://tkimggdal.sourceforge.net.
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[wgm] 25Apr06 -- The first public release, version 0.1, is now available at http://tkimggdal.sourceforge.net. The release includes the [Critcl] source file and a binary package for i686 Linux. To build or use the binary package you will need a GDAL binary installation (see http://www.gdal.org). This version only supports reading images from file.
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