Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.10.9912011044310.1592-100000@sun06.ams.org
To: tiff@olympiakos.com
Subject: Re: ZIP compression [was: libtiff 3.5.3 release.]
From: Tom Kacvinsky <tjk@ams.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 10:51:08 -0500 (EST)
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

> At 9:42 AM -0500 12/1/99, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> >As you may or may not know, Adobe's Image Ready support ZIP compressed
> >TIFFs (reading and writing), but they use a different tag for the
> >compression scheme.
> 
>       If that's the case, then it's also true for other Adobe 
> products (Photoshop, ImageStyler, InDesign, etc.) since they all use 
> the same technology (and shared libraries) for doing image processing.
>

Haven't tried it with InDesign just yet.   PS 5.5 (for the
Macintosh) reads Deflate compressed TIFFs.  Cool.  Thanks for 
pointing this out.

>
>       I don't know any of the specifics of what they are doing, but 
> I do know that Adobe has been working on a TIFF 7, that incorporates 
> a number of improvements.
>

Cool.
 
>
>       I am on the list, but I don't work for Adobe anymore...
>

My bad. Sorry.

Tom



