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From: John M Davison <davisonj@ecn.purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: TIFF ReferenceBlackWhite Field Versus Leffler's TIFF Software
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In-Reply-To: <9409160705.AA29556@kalle.ivab.se> from "Fredrik Lundh" at Sep 16, 94 09:05:56 am
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        Fredrik Lundh writes:
>...the spec explicitly says that the ReferenceBlackWhite tag is to be used
>with RGB and YCbCr images only. So if you find this tag in a file,
>SamplesPerPixel ought to be 3.

        Is it so, then, that there can be no extra samples if the
ReferenceBlackWhite tag is used?  I am skeptical.

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