STIFF is a program that converts scientific FITS images to the more popular TIFF format for illustration purposes. Author: Emmanuel Bertin |
What’s new?
- 2010-02-01 : STIFF V2.0 released, brings a wealth of new features, including BigTIFF support, image compression, tiled pyramidal TIFF mode and XML-VOTable metadata output.
2 comments. - 2010-01-31 : Examples of large zoomable images made using STIFF 2.0 and IIPImage: the CFHTLS interactive image gallery.
0 comments. - 2010-01-29 : Displaying in a proper and consistent way deep-sky astronomical images on a computer screen is not as straightforward as it seems, even with recent monitors. This post helps you tune up your display.
0 comments. - 2009-05-04 : AstrOmatic binary software is packaged slightly differently from older (TERAPIX) releases. Read about the choices made for packaging AstrOmatic software and the main changes between the old and the new system.
0 comments. - 2005-01-10 : STIFF V1.10 implements vertical image flipping.
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Download the latest version (V2.0)
Both the autoconfigurable source archive and Linux RPM packages are available below. The RPM versions have been optimized to provide the best possible performance on Linux PCs and come statically linked with libTIFF 4.0 (BigTIFF support).
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x86-64 |
Documentation
The STIFF documentation is complete and fully up-to-date.
 User's Manual |
