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Subject: RE: TIFF Standards?
To: Bill Radcliffe <BillR@corbis.com>
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I would agree that a reference implementation would be good.  I remember,
though, that libTiff in older formats had a printf (which was converted to
a MessageBox on Win32) for every tag it didn't recognize, even if it was in
the private tag range.  That, I think, should be fixed so that private tags
are ignored, to set the appropriate example.

Jeff



                                                                                                                   
                    Bill                                                                                           
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> 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?

I have been talking to a few people at Adobe recently that are involved in
the file format issue. They appear ready to re-release the TIFF spec but
are
not yet talking about how this will occur. One thing for certain is that
Adobe does *not* think that TIFF is stagnant. They understand the
importance
of this format to the imaging workflow. Take a look at what is in Photoshop
6.0 for example. There is an "Advanced features" checkbox for TIFF now that
gives you access to all kinds of features that were previously not
officially supported. As you can imagine -- there are probably many
different opinions within Adobe on what should be done. They are not a
small
company. I think that the time is right for our group to start e-mailing
any
and all Adobe contacts we have and start lobbying for our code base to be
the "official" reference implementation of the TIFF "spec" going forward.

William T. Radcliffe
Corbis
15395 SE 30th Place - Suite 300
Bellevue, WA, 98007
Phone: 425-649-3381
Fax: 425-643-9742
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