Re: ImageIO.write - compression

From:
"Rupert Woodman" <NoEmail@com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:40:03 +0100
Message-ID:
<46196152$0$8738$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>
Thank you Knute - I'll read and digest.

Many thanks.

Rgds

"Knute Johnson" <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote in message
news:IObSh.397089$Ju2.125924@newsfe16.lga...

Rupert Woodman wrote:

That's interesting - thanks very much for the tip.
I've done that, but changing the compression quality between the 3
allowed values (0.5, 0.75 & 0.95) results in the same size file - is that
a surprise to you? I expected that if I changed the compression quality
to 0.95, I'd have a larger file that if I used a value of 0.05 (I got
that by reading the Java doc on ImageWriteParam)

Many thanks


Now that I look at your code more carefully, you look to be missing some
pieces. Take a look at the code below.

import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.imageio.*;
import javax.imageio.stream.*;
import javax.imageio.plugins.jpeg.*;

public class JPEGWriter {
    public static void write(RenderedImage image, float quality,
     File file) throws IOException {
        ImageWriter writer = null;
        Iterator iter = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("JPEG");
        if (!iter.hasNext())
            throw new IOException("No Writers Available");
        writer = (ImageWriter)iter.next();
        if (file.exists())
            file.delete();
        ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(file);
        writer.setOutput(ios);
        JPEGImageWriteParam iwp = new JPEGImageWriteParam(null);
        iwp.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
        iwp.setCompressionQuality(quality);
        writer.write(null,new IIOImage(image,null,null),iwp);
        ios.flush();
        writer.dispose();
        ios.close();
    }
}

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Knute Johnson
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