- 2007.07.03 19:04 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension?", by Stephen Carlsen
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2007.07.03 19:09 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension?", by Bob Friesenhahn
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2007.07.04 15:58 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension?", by Phil Harvey
- 2007.07.04 11:37 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension?", by Phil Harvey
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2007.07.04 17:13 "[Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Stephen Carlsen
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2007.07.04 17:24 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Andy Cave
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2007.07.04 17:26 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Andy Cave
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2007.07.04 17:49 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Stephen Carlsen
- 2007.07.04 18:00 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Joris Van Damme
- 2007.07.04 20:37 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Andy Cave
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2007.07.05 10:56 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Andrey Kiselev
- 2007.07.05 12:03 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Andy Cave
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2007.07.05 17:58 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Stephen Carlsen
- 2007.07.04 18:02 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Joris Van Damme
- 2007.07.05 18:30 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Joris Van Damme
- 2007.07.06 01:46 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Chris Cox
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2007.07.04 17:49 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Stephen Carlsen
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2007.07.04 17:26 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Andy Cave
- 2007.07.04 17:28 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Michael Wolf
- 2007.07.04 17:36 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Andrew Brooks
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2007.07.04 17:24 "Re: [Tiff] 16-Bit-Per-Channel Lossless Compression", by Andy Cave
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2007.07.04 15:58 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension?", by Phil Harvey
- 2007.07.03 19:17 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension?", by Andy Cave
- 2007.07.04 11:53 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension?", by Phil Harvey
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2007.07.04 20:52 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Joris Van Damme
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2007.07.04 21:04 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Toby Thain
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2007.07.05 05:07 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Joris Van Damme
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2007.07.05 08:09 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Andy Cave
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2007.07.05 13:40 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Joris Van Damme
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2007.07.05 21:00 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Chris Cox
- 2007.07.05 21:19 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Joris Van Damme
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2007.07.05 22:13 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Bob Friesenhahn
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2007.08.06 22:48 "RE: [Tiff] Transparency ... associated or unassociated alpha is morecompatible?", by Chris Cox
- 2007.08.06 22:32 "RE: [Tiff] Transparency ... associated or unassociated alpha is morecompatible?", by Chris Cox
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2007.08.06 22:48 "RE: [Tiff] Transparency ... associated or unassociated alpha is morecompatible?", by Chris Cox
- 2007.07.06 12:36 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Gary McGath
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2007.07.05 21:00 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Chris Cox
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2007.07.05 13:40 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Joris Van Damme
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2007.07.05 08:09 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Andy Cave
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2007.07.05 16:26 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Joris Van Damme
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2007.07.05 04:19 "RE: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Kemp Watson
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2007.07.04 16:56 "[Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Kemp Watson
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2007.07.04 17:35 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Andrew Brooks
- 2007.07.04 18:13 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by John Aldridge
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2007.07.04 18:25 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Phil Harvey
- 2007.07.04 18:52 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Toby Thain
- 2007.07.04 19:17 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Frank Warmerdam
- 2007.07.05 20:31 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Chris Cox
- 2007.07.05 15:14 "[Tiff] BigTIFF - Aware Aperio version diff", by Kemp Watson
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2007.07.04 17:35 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Andrew Brooks
- 2007.07.05 04:54 "RE: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Stephen Carlsen
- 2007.07.05 16:32 "RE: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Kemp Watson
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2007.07.04 16:56 "[Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Kemp Watson
- 2007.07.05 18:56 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Toby Thain
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2007.07.05 04:19 "RE: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Kemp Watson
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2007.07.05 05:07 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Joris Van Damme
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2007.07.05 10:06 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by John Aldridge
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2007.07.05 13:23 "[Tiff] Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12", by Gary McGath
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2007.07.05 13:56 "Re: [Tiff] Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12", by Joris Van Damme
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2007.07.05 14:14 "Re: [Tiff] Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12", by Gary McGath
- 2007.07.05 14:39 "Re: [Tiff] Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12", by Joris Van Damme
- 2007.07.05 15:26 "Re: [Tiff] Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12", by Andrey Kiselev
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2007.07.05 14:14 "Re: [Tiff] Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12", by Gary McGath
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2007.07.05 13:56 "Re: [Tiff] Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12", by Joris Van Damme
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2007.07.05 13:23 "[Tiff] Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12", by Gary McGath
- 2007.07.05 16:51 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Andrew Brooks
- 2007.07.09 16:11 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Stephen Carlsen
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2007.07.04 21:04 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Toby Thain
2007.07.05 02:41 "Re: [Tiff] BigTIFF extension", by Joris Van Damme
Stephen,
"Because, for the first time in the 21 year history of TIFF, the structure itself has changed, and, accordingly, the 'version number' has changed from 42 to 43. (The 'version number' has, of course, been 42 since the very beginning of TIFF.) This breaks all existing TIFF readers."
The exact same thing applies to the coming of tiles in TIFF. It wasn't the structure itself that had changed at that time, but it was some of the extremely vital tags, which resulted in the same. It broke all existing TIFF readers. Your reasoning would have applied back then, too, and we'd be forced to use 'tf3' as an extension right now because 'tf2' would have been taken for tiled TIFF. No, actually, we would be forced to use 'tf3' for striped BigTIFF and 'tf4' for tiled BigTIFF, probably.
Put things to this extreme, and you can end up encoding all information in the extension. That's not a good thing to do. Put the exact information where it belongs, not more and not less, and don't code anything twice. The extension is for marking the file format, and that's TIFF in both ClassicTIFF and BigTIFF version. The version number, in turn, marks the version. That's just good, and truthfull information encoding management.
Best regards,
Joris Van Damme
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