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Subject: Re: [Tiff] TIFF Technote 3, draft 1
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Chris,

> I've just posted draft 1 of TIFF Technote 3 at
> http://chriscox.org/TIFFTN3d1.pdf
> This technote covers improvements for floating point image data
> support available in Photoshop CS2.
>
> Let me know if you see any errors, and if I need to provide more
> details anywhere.

<quote>
This means that the predictor reorders the bytes into a semi-BigEndian order,
and that the TIFF reader and writer should not change the byte order of the
image data outside of the predictor.
</quote>

I think I know what you mean, but it's mighty confusing. Wouldn't it serve your
intention better to use the word 'bit-order' in relation to the throwing around
bits scheme that serves the predictor, rather then the word 'byte-order'?

Also, possibly I'm being stupid, but I'm unsure about how the regular
Intel/Motorola byte-order issue applies to the 16bit float format. Does swapping
apply in such a case, i.e. is the image data differently swapped in Intel and
Motorola byte order files? Perhaps a note about that could be a useful addition,
if I'm not being plain stupid.


Joris Van Damme
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