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1999.01.04 18:53 "Re: Opening to page "x" in a multi-page TIFF file?", by John Aldridge
At 16:40 04/01/99 +0000, mark_k@iname.com wrote: >Contrast this with bitmap image file formats; if a viewer supports >GIF or TIFF G4 (say), then it *will* display images using that file >format. Not to disagree with the main thrust of this message, but I wish this particular claim were true! TIFF is actually rather poorly supported by many raster display utilities, at least on the PC. Staying just with monchrome images - Many viewers do not handle G4 compression at all. - Wang Imaging crashes on packbits compression. - Tiled (as opposed to strip) format TIFFs are often not handled. - The photometric interpretation tag is dealt with wrongly by many viewers (images are displayed with black & white reversed). -- Cheers, John