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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:31:18 -0700
Subject: Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension
From: Chris Cox <ccox@adobe.com>
To: Andrew Brooks <arb@sat.dundee.ac.uk>, TIFF <tiff@lists.maptools.org>
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Status:   

BIGTiff would generally get "this is not a TIFF file" because the header has
changed.

Chris



On 7/4/07 10:35 AM, "Andrew Brooks" <arb@sat.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:56:38 +0100, Kemp Watson <kemp@extelligence.net> wrote:
>> Besides, if a user tries to open a BigTIFF file with a regular TIFF tool,
>> they will need to get a BigTIFF tool no matter
>> what the file extension is.
> 
> The real question here is what error message is presented?
> 
> Obviously it will never be the best message: "This is a BigTIFF file, please
> upgrade to a version which supports BigTIFF".
> 
> I would hope that the design of BigTIFF means that the messages are not simply
> "Cannot open. File is corrupt", but rather something like "file uses an
> unsupported compression algorithm".
> 
> Andrew
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