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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:51:16 -0800
From: Chris Cox <ccox@adobe.com>
Subject: Re: [Tiff] Floating Point Sample Format
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At 3:35 PM +0000 3/19/05, Charles Auer wrote:
>I need more information about floating point sample format.
>
>Are TIFFTAG_SMINSAMPLEVALUE (340) and TIFFTAG_SMAXSAMPLEVALUE (341) 
>intended for use with floating point samples?
>
>If so, than how do you scale sample values when they are not included?

Those tags aren't supposed to be used for scaling anyway - they're 
only for information.
(see the TIFF spec)

And they should be usable for floating point values, even if not 
spelled out in the original spec.

Chris

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