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I am dealing with large TIFF files of planetary data which are mostly gray-scale. I noticed that the cairo image format [0] does not define an 8-bit gray-scale format. The closest to this would be the 'A8' however, this is made for alpha values.
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Since cairo is around for quite some time, I suppose there is a way to deal with gray-scale images, so I wonder what the recommended way is.
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Right now to make this work I can either save each pixel value three times, or use the A8 format and put a white background behind the image.
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The first workaround is sub-optimal because it results in a huge waste of memory and additional compute time and mind you I am dealing with huge image data.
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The second approach kinda works but it feels like a hacky solution nonetheless and might cause other rendering problems.
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As a little side-note: I am not using cairo directly but rely on the cairo bindings for Rust (cairo-rs) since my application is written in Rust.
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Any help how to deal with this, would be much appreciated.
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[0]: <a href="https://www.cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Image-Surfaces.html#cairo-format-t">https://www.cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Image-Surfaces.html#cairo-format-t</a>
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- Raphael
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