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2007.07.05 22:02 "Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12", by Toby Thain
On 5-Jul-07, at 6:38 PM, Joris wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Chris Cox wrote:
>> > > > Stick with reality. What do programmers/users know about TIFF,
>> > > > what does it stand for? Any part of that actually changed?
>> > >
>> > > Compatibility with all existing software.
>> >
>> > We've seen that argument before. I've replied before (amongst other
>> > replies) that the same goes for tiling in TIFF, it was not
>> > compatible with all existing software either. So far, nobody
>> > contradicted my reply, so let's stop returning to square one in
>> > this part of the discussion.
>>
>> With a tiled TIFF or different compression schemes, the file is
>> recognized as TIFF and gets a more useful error message ("unsupported
>> compression scheme", "unrecognized storage method", etc.).
>>
>> BigTIFF does have the disadvantage over all previous changes in that
>> it will get "Not a TIFF file" or "corrupt file" error messages from
>> all previous software.
>
> With all due respect, but, that too has been said before. ...
> Photoshop, like most of today's GUI apps, allows selection of file
> format when saving a file, followed by an option dialog specific to
> the file format. Are you inclined to feel good about having users
> select between ClassicTIFF and BigTIFF in the first step,
Yes, because only 0.01% of TIFF users need BigTIFF.
Perhaps the real disagreement in this thread is about the
characterisation of the actual/appropriate/hoped-for user population,
and their software of choice.
What about a proper comprehensive survey.
--Toby
> to present a different same clone of the same option dialog
> depending on that choice? ...
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Joris Van Damme
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