Message-ID: 396F314F.9F249403@earthlink.net
To: Frank Warmerdam <warmerda@home.com>
Subject: Re: Complex Images
From: Niles Ritter <ritter@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:27:11 +0000
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Frank Warmerdam wrote:


> [...]
>
> Therefore, I propose that we add:
>
> SAMPLEFORMAT_COMPLEXINT    5 /* !signed complex integer value */
> SAMPLEFORMAT_COMPLEXIEEEFP 6 /* !complex IEEE floating point value */

Frank,

This might be a good time to try to give Adobe a kick in the pants about
the  now-4-years-late  TIFF 7.0 draft spec, which got swallowed up in
internal politics before.   Since the code is not > 32K, it is not a private
code and so (theoretically) is owned by Adobe.  This means that they could
come out with another definition of the number "5" that would break
our stuff, since they own the TIFF format.

Somewhere around here I recall seeing the email address for how
to get to a human being at Adobe without paying $$$ for a
"partners"  account.  We should make an attempt (heroic or not)
to at least give Adobe another chance to prove they arent
overtly hostile to this green-eyed-stepchild they inherited
called TIFF.

  --Niles  (coauthor, GeoTIFF)



