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2009.02.13 17:27 "Re: warning and errors", by Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Joris Van Damme (AWare Systems) wrote: >> TIFF is a very flexible format. There are proprietary usages of TIFF >> which require special tags in order for the proprietary software to be >> able to read the file correctly. If a program using libtiff opens one >> of these files then the result may be gibberish. However, the user is >> likely to see a wrong looking image. > > I humbly dissagree. TIFF only works if you separate the 'nominal' layer from > the 'proprietary extension' layer. For example, say some app needs to store I didn't mean to indicate "approval" for this sort of proprietary usage which leads to gibberish. None of my email indicates approval (or disproval). I simply indicated that such files do exist. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/