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From: "Grissom, Ed" <egrissom@ingr.com>
To: "'tiff@sgi.com'" <tiff@sgi.com>,
        "'Claire.Rossignol@best.ms.philips.com'"
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Subject: RE: (more than 8 bits) TIFF images
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Note that the 4 and 8 bit restriction is only for "baseline" TIFF.  

As far as I know, there are no restrictions on BPS for non-baseline
files.  

In the discussion of the Compression tag (p.30), the TIFF 6.0 document
specifically mentions 16, 32, and 6-bit data.


--
ed grissom
egrissom@ingr.com

>----------
>From:
>	Claire.Rossignol@best.ms.philips.com[SMTP:Claire.Rossignol@best.ms.philips.c
>om]
>Sent: 	Thursday, December 05, 1996 1:48 AM
>To: 	tiff@sgi.com
>Subject: 	(more than 8 bits) TIFF images
>
>
>
>Hie,
>
> 
> 
>The BitsPerSample required values for Grayscale and Palette-color Images are
>4 and 8 according to the TIFF 6.0 Specification. Does it mean that TIFF does
>not
>support BitsPerSample values > 8 bits for these images ?
> 
>If not, do you know any viewing tool which is able to display 12 bits-TIFF
>images ?
> 
>Thank you for your help,
> 
>Claire Rossignol
>
