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Thank you for making OpenSlide available. It is very useful for me to <br>deal effectively with multiple scanner manufacturers. I've just tried <br>some examples and have the following questions:<br><br>1. There seems to be only one pixel data format retrieved from the <br>slides and that is pre-multiplied ARGB. Since most of the slide formats <br>(known to me) have no alpha channel, and if they do, RGB components are <br>already pre-mulitplied with the alpha channel, why can't we use RGB <br>(24-bit) instead of ARGB (32-bit) format when we get a region from the <br>slide? This would ease integration for many people having codes handling <br>24-bit RGB format.<br><br>2. Since there could be an endian issue from one platform to the other, <br>are there macros helping to make it easier to retrieve color components <br>R, G, B from the 32-bit pixel data?<br><br>Thank you very much for any hints.<br>Tom N<br><br> <br /><hr />Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2' target='_new'>See how.</a></body>
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