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On Apr 27, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Daniel McCoy wrote:

> If you want to change TIFFReadRGBAImage to return RGBA where A might
> or might not be associated, you will force all existing clients
> to read the extra samples tag and perform any desired alpha  
> operations itself.
> Defeating the original purpose of TIFFReadRGBAImage.
>

Thanks Chris / Daniel. So, effectively this is by-design. I'm not  
expecting libtiff to break compatibility with existing programs, so I  
will just make the changes I need and move on.

:: Amir Ebrahimi ::
Developer @ Unity Technologies
www.unity3d.com




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