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2004.09.02 01:44 "Re: Stacked tiffs with colourmaps", by Chris Cox
> *But* if you are very sure that your files will not escape into the wild, and > will not get edited by TIFF page-joggling or other tools, you could > nevertheless > write the color map only once, and state the same color map offset > in all IFD's. > That is *not legal* in TIFF 6.0, but it takes some analysis to detect even, so > normal readers would not have any problems with the file. Neither would > transcoders. Only apps that, for instance, delete pages and try to reuse lost > memory writing other data into it and such, would cause problems. That actually would work in most TIFF readers. Chris