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2005.01.30 17:36 "Re: converting tags", by Lee Howard
On 2005.01.30 03:25 Andrey Kiselev wrote: > So the best solution should be allocating the > new tag. I agree. It took me some tinkering to come to that conclusion, but changing typedefs of tags causes an enormous compatibility problem that I don't think we want. > You can try to ask Adobe to reserve the tag number for > Hylafax My understanding is that SGI reserved tags 34908 through 34914 for HylaFAX. We're currently only using 34908-34910. If my understanding is incorrect, please correct me. > (I think that Chris Cox may be the one who knows in advance how to do > this). The form is here: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/tiff/index_reg.html > When you will have the special tag I can add support for it into > libtiff. Thanks. I'll need to write up a patch for suggested libtiff support for the new tag myself, to test it while I work on the HylaFAX side of things. However, I would certainly appreciate some comments on this: http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736 Thanks. Lee.