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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:59:41 -0700
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From: Glenn Bennett <gbennett@autoiii.com>
Subject: clipping Path in TIFF files
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Greetings,

Before you say there is no such thing as a clipping path in a TIFF file,
you better try importing TIFF's (with clipping path) produced by PhotoShop
into PageMaker.

Anyway, here is what I'm trying to find out. I need to support this
clipping path in my app, and I can't seem to find a spec for how they are
doing it. I did find the "PageMaker extensions to TIFF" specification which
indeed has a clipping path tag specified in it, but after looking at many
TIFF files I see that they don't use this TAG. Instead they use their own
TAG (34377). The data in this TAG seems to be in some kind of MAC Resource
format.

If anyone has any clues, I would appreciate it.

Thank you,
Glenn L. Bennett
