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From: Chris Cox <ccox@adobe.com>
Subject: Re: [Tiff] Large TIFF files
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At 3:45 PM -0400 4/22/04, Dan Smith wrote:
>ccox@adobe.com writes:
>>
>>>I'm sure Chris will bring in the lessons they've learned at Adobe when
>>>creating their PSB/Large Document Format.
>>
>>PSB was only a minimal change to the PSD file format to use 64 bit offsets.
>>But changing the file extension and version number did let me clean
>>up some things that were held back by compatibility issues (when you
>>have to be compatible with everyone, it's not easy to change the file
>>format).
>
>What are the obstacles to publishing the PSB/Large Document spec and basing
>"big TIFF" on it?

Massive -- we don't publish the full PSD/PSB format publicly anymore.
It's restricted documentation.

(and that call was made by the VPs, so I can't do much about it)

Chris
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