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>>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.
Actually, there are, including versions published by both Aldus (the
original, I think) and Adobe. Then there are later modifications by those
companies, other companies, other people who have just added a little detail
that suited their job...
>When saving as a TIFF in PMView, I have the following options:
>Byte Ordering
> IBM PC
> Macintosh
>-------------------------------
Many of these options are accretions, not part of any published standard.
>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.
I couldn't agree more! I prefer to stick with .EPS; that way I can almost
always make it print in the manual whether or not it shows on the screen.
Averil
Legend Communications, Inc.
Makers of PostScript and Imposition Software http://www.legendcomm.com
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