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2000.10.10 08:29 "Re: IFD / Image data ordering", by Martin Bailey
At 07:09 10/10/00, Tom Lane wrote: > Niles Ritter writes: > > As I read the RFC 2301 spec, it looks like you have more than one > > challenge, because not only does it say that the offsets SHALL be > > written out with forward-only IFD pointers, but the byte-order of the > > file SHALL be little-endian (Intel), > > Sheesh. How did RFC 2301 get accepted? Obviously they carefully > refrained from allowing it to be reviewed by anyone with a clue > about TIFF. I believe that the intent was to bend TIFF into a form that could be read from a file that was not positionable. Remember PostScript printers that could send and receive fax? I have a suspicion that TIFF/FX was part of that work. Regards Martin Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------- Senior Technical Consultant mailto:martinb@harlequin.com Digital Print & Publishing +44 1223 873800 Harlequin http://www.harlequin.com ------------------------------------------------------------- If my views didn't usually coincide with those of my employer I wouldn't want to work here, but I am not a spokesman for Harlequin and the buck stops with me for what I say. -------------------------------------------------------------