Re: TIFF Formats

Paula Berinstein (mailto:pberinstein@WORLDNET.ATT.NET)
Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:57:57 -0700

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Date:         Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:57:57 -0700
From: Paula Berinstein <mailto:pberinstein@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: TIFF Formats
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

> I am looking for a reference that will explain the difference in TIFF
> files, especially TIFF 4 and TIFF 5, compressed and uncompressed. Also,
> software that can convert TIFF 5 and TIFF 5 compressed to TIFF 4 and
> TIFF 4 compressed.

Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats by James D. Murray and William vanRyper (published by O'Reilly) mentions some differences and refers the reader to the Adobe Developer's Association at www.adobe.com/Support/ADA.html for further information. There is a BBS in Europe reachable through mailto:eurosupport@adobe.com; phone number is +44 131 458 4666 (this is in Edinburgh, Scotland).

The bibliography for the TIFF chapter in the encyclopedia also cites:

ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/ http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/~ndr/tiff/index.html TIFF Developer's Toolkit, Revision 5.0, Aldus Corporation, Seattle, Washington (USA) HP TIFF Developer's Manual, 1988, published by Hewlett-Packard Company Murray, James. "TIFF File Format," C Gazette, Winter 1990-1, pp. 27-42.

Hope this is helpful.

Paula Berinstein Berinstein Research Woodland Hills, CA mailto:pberinstein@worldnet.att.net