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1999.12.01 15:24 "Re: ZIP compression [was: libtiff 3.5.3 release.]", by Leonard Rosenthol
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.
>So it lloks like Adobe is
>already heading torwards adding ZIP compression to the TIFF
>specification, but is using a different tag scheme.
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.
>I belive that
>Leonard Rosenthal (of Adobe) is on this list and could answer this
>question.
>
I am on the list, but I don't work for Adobe anymore...
Leonard
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