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2004.04.22 21:59 "Re: Large TIFF files", by Chris Cox
> I agree with you on this. While there there may be a desire to "fix" > and "improve" 64-bit TIFF over 32-bit TIFF, if the changes are not > restricted to the minimum required to support large file sizes, then > the updates to existing TIFF readers and writers will not be trivial, > and it becomes likely that 64-bit TIFF will fail. If reading/writing > 64-bit TIFF with existing source code is as trivial as updating some > typedefs, and ensuring that calculations don't overflow, then there is > a much higher probability that the new format will be generally > accepted. Or we can start with LibTIFF and create a new library for the new format. It doesn't have to be one library. Yes, there is some desire to fix old problems with TIFF in addition to extending the file length. Chris