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2005.11.07 20:26 "Re: How located pixels with BitsPerSample not bound to byte?", by Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Joris wrote: > > You misunderstood my feelings about byteswapping 24bit data... > > All by itself, I do think the convention to byteswap this is > unfortunate, you got that right. > > However, I feel it is much more important that we have a person or > organisation with authority, that jumps in when needed, and provides > standardized conventions for us. I mean, there is no 'right' or 'wrong' > (even if there is 'fortunate' and 'maybe less fortunate'), there is only > 'convention', as in 'specification', or, much worse, the lack of it. I agree that we should feel very fortunate that Chris Cox works for Adobe and takes care to describe Adobe TIFF extensions in the form of a specification. There is almost always someone available to disagree with any opinion or statement. Speaking of specifications, a while back Chris posted a draft specification for 16/24 bit floats in TIFF (as supported by Photoshop CS2) but I have not noticed that a final version of that document has been posted yet. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/