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2005.04.11 08:34 "Re: TIFF Technote 3, draft 1", by Joris Van Damme
Chris, > I've just posted draft 1 of TIFF Technote 3 at > http://chriscox.org/TIFFTN3d1.pdf > This technote covers improvements for floating point image data > support available in Photoshop CS2. > > Let me know if you see any errors, and if I need to provide more > details anywhere. <quote> This means that the predictor reorders the bytes into a semi-BigEndian order, and that the TIFF reader and writer should not change the byte order of the image data outside of the predictor. </quote> I think I know what you mean, but it's mighty confusing. Wouldn't it serve your intention better to use the word 'bit-order' in relation to the throwing around bits scheme that serves the predictor, rather then the word 'byte-order'? Also, possibly I'm being stupid, but I'm unsure about how the regular Intel/Motorola byte-order issue applies to the 16bit float format. Does swapping apply in such a case, i.e. is the image data differently swapped in Intel and Motorola byte order files? Perhaps a note about that could be a useful addition, if I'm not being plain stupid. Joris Van Damme info@awaresystems.be http://www.awaresystems.be/ Download your free TIFF tag viewer for windows here: http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/astifftagviewer.html