2005.03.21 20:56 "Re: [Tiff] Floating Point Sample Format", by Frank Warmerdam

Those tags aren't supposed to be used for scaling anyway - they're only for information.

(see the TIFF spec)

Chris,

I did notice the comment in the Spec that the SMINSAMPLEVALUE and SMAXSAMPLEVALUE aren't supposed to be used for scaling. Do you have any idea why that comment is there? I have always taken these fields as ok to use for scaling, but with the caveat that they may not be terrible appropriate. But if we want to avoid a prescanning step it would seem like a good first guess at scaling values.

Best regards,

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