2017.08.26 13:56 "[Tiff] Determining use of "w" or "w8" in TIFFOpen", by Paul Hemmer

2017.08.26 15:14 "Re: [Tiff] Determining use of "w" or "w8" in TIFFOpen", by Paavo Helde

On 26.08.2017 17:54, Paul Hemmer wrote:

ie. can BigTIFF be used for files that are smaller than 4GB due to the compression?

Absolutely, you can encode a 100 byte file as BigTIFF, it's just a file format. Actually there is some wisdom in producing all TIFF files as BigTIFF regardless of size as this helps to ensure beforehand that the workflows using those files are prepared to work with large files.

hth

Paavo