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2007.05.02 13:00 "[TIFF] CCITT RLE image is inverted", by <tame@lexmark.com>
2007.05.02 14:47 "Re: [TIFF] CCITT RLE image is inverted", by Bob Friesenhahn
2007.05.02 16:27 "Re: [TIFF] CCITT RLE image is inverted", by Chris Cox

2007.05.02 14:47 "Re: [TIFF] CCITT RLE image is inverted", by Bob Friesenhahn

On Wed, 2 May 2007 tame@lexmark.com wrote:
>
> I have a CCITT RLE compressed image with photometric interpretation of
> MinIsZero that appears "correct" in Windows Viewer, but appears "inverted"
> in GIMP, Photoshop and IrfanView.
>
>> From the output from libtiff, it appears that GIMP, et al is honoring the
> photometric interpretation, but Windows Viewer is not?  I wasn't sure if
> that was the case, or maybe libtiff is inverting the data before passing
> back to the caller.

It seems that you have answered your own question.  The Windows viewer 
is broken.  However, use of min-is-black with this compression 
algorithm is unusual.

Bob
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