toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead) (02/26/88)
I am looking for something to read TIFF formatted graphic files for a PC clone. Does anyone out there know of such a thing - Public Domain if possible??? Thanks, Tom ------------- Tom Armistead UUCP: ...!ihnp4!killer!toma -- ------------- Tom Armistead UUCP: ...!ihnp4!killer!toma
rhj@wdl1.UUCP (Bob Jones) (03/01/88)
> I am looking for something to read TIFF formatted graphic files for > a PC clone. Does anyone out there know of such a thing - Public Domain > if possible??? Reading a TIFF file is pretty easy. It is understanding and doing something with the contents of the file that forms the hard part. TIFF is a pretty general format and allows the transmission of images in a variety of forms (uncompressed, CCITT Group III compressed, CCITT Group IV compressed, etc.). The decompression routines are non-trivial to write, and take one heck of a lot of CPU power to run. And then there is the question of what you do with the resultant image? Do you want to display it on your screen? If so, just what type of screen (monitor and controller) do you have? Do you want to print it? On what type of printer? It sounds like you either don't understand what TIFF files are all about or haven't formulated your request too clearly. Bob Jones Ford Aerospace