2012.11.24 00:09 "[Tiff] help writing thumbnails to TIFF file?", by Paul Heckbert

2012.11.27 13:12 "Re: [Tiff] help writing thumbnails to TIFF file?", by Joris Van Damme

Paul Heckbert wrote
> We have several opinions so far:

> Joris Van Damme... argued that people shouldn't care about the order of > data in their TIFF files.

Here's what I read, besides the actual TIFF specification that is:

Daniel McCoy write

> I have to agree though, it is not intended to give control over > the order of data in the file.

Paul Heckbert wrote
> Joris Van Damme... added that it
> would be unlikely to suit me or anyone else

Here's what I read:

Olivier Paquet wrote:

> But I agree pretty much everyone else should never call it.

Paul Heckbert wrote
> He added that it
> would be unlikely to suit me or anyone else but he didn't explain why
> it wouldn't

That's just not correct, again. I spent about a page of text explaining exactly why.

I'm not trying to pick a fight, man. I merely gave you some advice, best I could. If you choose to ignore it, by all means, do so, but please don't misrepresent this discussion in order to justify doing so. Why would you be needing any justification, anyway?

PS: If we're interested in distant history, I worked with Sam Leffler at Pixar in 1986 and he and I wrote the Pixar Software Standards document together.

And Graphics Gems, and zoom, and...

Dudes, chill... I'm not making money here. I have no vested interest whatsoever. I was merely freely offering some advice, for you to use as you see fit.

I remove myself from this discussion now.

Best regards,

Joris Van Damme
AWare Systems
info@awaresystems.be
http://www.awaresystems.be/