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2009.03.04 01:37 "Re: TIFF-FX", by Frank Warmerdam
Steve Underwood wrote: > Hi, > > I tried the current libtiff 4.0 beta, and found it lacks support for the > extra tags defined for TIFF-FX files (RFC3949). I am wondering if that > is simply because nobody did the work, or because it was intentionally > left out. RFC3949 look a long time to be finalised, and there were > patent wrangles between Xerox and Adobe for a while. It looks like > that's all sorted out, though, and the IETF seems happy enough to have > published RFC3949. > > If there is nothing to block the addition of the relevant tags, I will > cook up a patch to add support. Steve, To the best of my knowledge there has never been TIFF-FX support in mainline libtiff. If you can provide a patch, and sample files via bugzilla there is a good chance of it making it in at some point. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent