Re: TIFF format (was The Creative Gouge)
Re: TIFF format (was The Creative Gouge)
- Subject: Re: TIFF format (was The Creative Gouge)
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 18:30:31 +0100
On 8 May 2013, at 17:49, Robin Myers <email@hidden> wrote:
> The issue with updating TIFF to use images larger than 4GB is that the TIFF tags are a fixed 12 byte format with many of them using an unsigned 32-bit value for the image size. It would require some clever work to make a newer file format backward compatible yet allow for larger images. There is also the issue of all the third party extensions TIFF has received over the last two decades and keeping any new TIFF format compatible with them.
TIFF has also been dropped by major archives for a number of reasons -- one of which is its proprietary status.
JPEG 2000 has won the storage format battle for archivists and I can't see TIFF fighting back unless Adobe gives up ownership.
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Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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