Write swing component to large TIFF image using JAI

Question

I have a large swing component to write to TIFF. The component is too large to load the TIFF in memory, so I either need to make a big BufferedImage which is backed by a dis

Answer 1

I had the same situation and I used these steps:

• Load as BufferedImage with JAI

• Resize BufferedImage size to preferable size (600x600px) maintaining aspect-ratio using Image#getScaledInstance(int w, int h, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH)

• Draw image using Graphics2d.drawImage(..) method in JComponent#paintComponent(java.awt.Graphics) method

That helped me with showing and manipulating TIFF images ~50MB (5000x5000px).