 STIFF is a program that converts scientific FITS images to the more popular TIFF format for illustration purposes.
Author: Emmanuel Bertin |
What’s new?
- 2014-03-20 : At last! By popular request, the official versions of nine AstrOmatic packages have been updated and include all the improvements from the development versions.
1 comment. - 2010-02-10 : STIFF V2.1 released, adds Mac OS X compatibility and a new COPY_HEADER option.
1 comment. - 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.
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Code
The binary versions have been optimized to provide the best possible performance on Linux PCs and come statically linked with libTIFF 4.0 (BigTIFF support).
 Source |
 Binaries |
Documentation
The STIFF documentation is complete and fully up-to-date.
 User’s Manual |
Acknowledging STIFF
Bertin 2012: Displaying Digital Deep Sky Images, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 461, 2012, P. Ballester, D. Egret, and N.P.F. Lorente, eds., p. 263 [PDF][BibTeX entry].