topic ADL support import images with 16- and 32-bit in Arbortext

ADL support import images with 16- and 32-bit

ahuemmer — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:54:44 GMT

We're using ADL 12.3.

ADL currently does not support the import of graphics (tif) with 16- or 32-bit color depth.
Customers provide us with graphics in 16 and 32 bit
We need to change the graphics to 8-bit, but this will result in a loss of quality.

Re: ADL support import images with 16- and 32-bit - Status changed to: Clarification Needed

SimonTaylor — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:28:35 GMT

I think we'd need to see some examples of the files you have a problem with as the TIFF format is broad enough that there might be something in the images which ALD doesn't yet handle... Can you raise a support case?

Re: ADL support import images with 16- and 32-bit - Status changed to: Clarification Needed

ahuemmer — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:28:10 GMT

Hallo Simon,

I make support case to Datacopy

Re: ADL support import images with 16- and 32-bit - Status changed to: Clarification Needed

SimonTaylor — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:15:56 GMT

We've taken this on as a development story for a future release. We will need to integrate libTiff in order to handle TIFFs with this level of colour depth and convert them to something which can be handled by PDF.

Simon