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Subject:Re: Screen Capture -- Related Question:TIFFs From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:38:54 -0800
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:43:41 -0400, Averil Strauss wrote:
>No, it has to do with the fact that there is a different standard for TIFFs
>on a Macintosh. The only way I know to avoid the hassle is to stick with one
>platform.
Ah, to live in such a dream world...
>Someone once told me that there were at least 6 or 8 _different_ TIFF
>errrr... standards?
No, just several zillion different options available for the format.
When saving as a TIFF in PMView, I have the following options:
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Compression - Bilevel Images
No compression
Packbits
LZW
CCITT RLE
CCITT FAX3
Uncompressed mode
2-dimensional encoding
Fill to byte boundary
CCITT FAX4
Uncompressed Mode
Compression - Color Images
No compression
Packbits
LZW
Byte Ordering
IBM PC
Macintosh
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As you can see, it's a very flexible format; unfortunately, that also
leaves a lot of room for incompatibility with applications and
platforms that don't fully support all the available options.
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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