Hello! I am trying to write a simple python extension for Inkscape 1.0 (beta) that opens a multipage tiff file, resizes the pages and adds them as layers into the svg. I was hoping to use PIL (Pillow) that comes bundled with the python interpreter for this. However, I am having trouble loading the tiffs i.e. `image.load()`. It works fine in an external virtual environment with the same version of Pillow. Any thoughts?

 

I know Pillow calls out to `libtiff` to handle tiffs so I suspect it is related to using the system venv's `libtiff` vs inkscape's (copy of?) `libtiff`...

Minimal code example:

 

from PIL import Image
image = Image.open('multipage_tif_example.tif`)
image.load()


Errors:
tempfile.tif: Cannot read TIFF header.
OSError: -2