'''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 [TIFF], [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] 24Jan07 -- Version 0.5 has been released and is now available at http://tkimggdal.sourceforge.net/ . The release includes the [Critcl 2] source file and binary packages for i686 Linux and Windows. To build or use the binary packages you will need to install the FWTools package (see http://fwtools.maptools.org/ ). This version still only supports reading images from file.

[LV] I always wondered why someone hadn't collected image format handlers up and made them generally available. I thought that [Img] was going to do that, but there doesn't seem to have been new formats added there in a while.

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