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2004.01.14 17:11 "Re: 64 bit offsets for large file support", by Dan Smith
warmerdam@pobox.com writes: > David Burken wrote: > > Frank, all: > > > > Just wondering if there are any plans to move to using 64 bit offsets > > for large file support greater than four gig? > > David, > > There has been occational discussion on the issue, but it is hard to see how > it could be done without impacting backward compatbility. That is, 64bit > TIFF would essentially be a new format that traditional TIFF readers wouldn't > be able to touch. > > The short answer is that there is no current plan to implement support for > files larger than 4GB. Wasn't there a suggestion that the TIFF/IT format could be used, as it allow tiling of multiple TIFF files? I'm not very familiar either with TIFF/IT or tifflib. Presumably this would NOT be a quick fix, as TIFFLIB doesn't handle TIFF/IT and neither do most existing TIFF-based applications. Is TIFF/IT still alive? I don't hear much about it lately.