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Subject: Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF Tag Value Count issue
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> Primary signalling, but I prefer opt. 3

Noted.

> The Number of values must be U64 too as my tag might describe an
> additional value for every pixel of the image. And as the image can be
> 4gig. this array will too.

Shouldn't an extra channel be used to encode this data, instead of a tag? The
mechanisms for the encoding of the raster is already there, outside of the tag
mechanism. Otherwise, sooner or later, you'll end up wanting to tile/strip your
tag data and whatnot.



Joris Van Damme
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