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From: "Buckley, Robert R" <RBuckley@crt.xerox.com>
To: "'Jeffrey L. Urlwin'" <jurlwin@caci.com>
Cc: tiff@olympiakos.com
Subject: RE: TIFF Standards?
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:04:48 -0500
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You mentioned JBIG support. The IETF Internet Fax Working Group and the
ITU-T have agreed on TIFF-FX for Store-and-Forward Internet Fax. TIFF-FX
(the FX stands for Fax eXtended) describes a standard way of using TIFF to
wrap the compressed image datastreams produced by the set of approved
methods for PSTN fax: G3, G4, JBIG (both b&w and color), JPEG and MRC. The
original TIFF-FX spec is RFC 2301, but there is now an updated version
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-fax-tiff-fx-09.txt>. The
IETF interop testing for TIFF-FX was done last year. One company has a
TIFF-FX test tool on the market, although it doesn't do JBIG currently
because of licensing issues, and another company has announced it is working
on document imaging solutions that output to TIFF-FX. Already several
companies offer Internet Fax products using TIFF-FX, typically Profiles S
and F for G3 and G4 black-and-white; at least one company advertises a
product that does JBIG, using TIFF-FX Profile J.

Regards,
Rob Buckley

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey L. Urlwin [mailto:jurlwin@caci.com]
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 8:34 AM
To: tiff@olympiakos.com
Subject: TIFF Standards?


Sorry if this is a pain, but if someone could point me to a FAQ about this
mailing list, my questions below could be answered.

1) has anything happened with the TIFF Standard in a LONG time?
     a) JBIG support documented
     b) PNG support
     c) etc.

It seems that the TIFF standard has stagnated in the light of PDF, etc.
Does anyone have a feel for and influence where it's going?

Thanks,

Jeff

