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Subject: Re: [Tiff] Additional Lossless Compression Schemes
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Bob,

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> So do you want to pass up BigTIFF in favor of JPEG2000 compressed
> TIFF. :-)

I've resisted making the troll remark that was on my mind throughout
this thread for some time now, but in answer to this, I cannot resist
any longer...

<troll remark>

As to new compression schemes in TIFF... I've seen JPEG2000 discussed
before in the list, multiple times, and so have you, and we'll probably
see it again when the next hybernation cycle is over, and the next, and
the next...

Same applies to BigTIFF. Except for one difference. I've put up a page
about it over at http://www.awaresystems.be/. This means

a) I for one am going ahead, no matter what. If other people don't
support it and make it into a meaningfull standard, then at least my
code will make it into a very local defacto standard, whatever that's
worth. The new tag viewer that is still under developement does already
support BigTIFF, which is meaningless without writing software, and when
a tag editor and such will be released, it'll include convertion from
TIFF to BigTIFF and the other way around, amongst other BigTIFF support
probably, even though that is most likely rather meaningless without
other writing software.

Sometimes a man's gotta do pretty useless stuff, because not commiting
to anything all by itself, is pretty useless too.

b) When BigTIFF next awakes from its traditional hybernation cycle,
discussion can't probably start from scratch all over again, like it
always did before. If nothing else, at least it'll be less boring and
frustrating that way to all of us who remember previous discussions.

</troll remark>

Pretty grim eh? Well, I warned you it is a troll remark... Hope you'll
all forgive me.


Joris Van Damme
info@awaresystems.be
http://www.awaresystems.be/
Download your free TIFF tag viewer for windows here:
http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/astifftagviewer.html

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