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On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Olumide wrote:
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> However, I'm keen to know how LibTIFF compares with OpenTIFF (which I also 
> learned of today). All I know about the latter is that it is C++ based. Would 
> anyone with some experience in using OpenTIFF would like to share their 
> thoughts/impressions on both libraries and in particular, how they compare 
> against each other. I'd be really grateful.

While libtiff is implemented in crusty old C, it is much more mature 
(i.e. more proven and less buggy) than OpenTIFF.

Bob
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