pquan@PC12.SOFKIN.CA (Perry Quan) (04/11/91)
I am seeking information and references regarding a data interchange format called TIFF (tag image file format). I believe it was developed by Microsoft and Aldus. Information describing what it is, who currently uses it and plans for its future use would be greatly appreciated. Any useful information will be incorporated into a paper I am preparing on electronic document delivery technologies for the National Library of Canada. Thanking you in advance, Perry Quan Software Kinetics Stittsville, Ontario
mskuhn@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) (04/12/91)
I have copied some text about TIFF from the comp.graphics "frequently asked questions list" and hope this helps. Try to ask at comp.graphics if you have further questions. Markus ---------------------------------------------------------------- [...] TIFF Software, by Sam Leffler <sam@okeeffe.berkeley.edu>. Nice portable library for reading and writing TIFF files, plus a few tools for manipulating them and reading other formats. Available via FTP as ucbvax.berkeley.edu:pub/tiff/*.tar.Z or uunet.uu.net:graphics/tiff.tar.Z [...] Don't forget to set binary mode when you FTP tar files. For you MILNET folks who still don't have name servers, the IP addresses are: expo.lcs.mit.edu 18.30.0.212 ftp.ee.lbl.gov 128.3.254.68 cs.utah.edu 128.110.4.21 nl.cs.cmu.edu 128.2.222.56 venera.isi.edu 128.9.0.32 ucbvax.berkeley.edu 128.32.133.1 weedeater.math.yale.edu 130.132.23.17 freebie.engin.umich.edu 141.212.68.23 pprg.unm.edu 129.24.13.10 8) Format documents for GIF, TIFF, IFF, BIFF, NFF, OFF, etc. You almost certainly don't need these. Read the above item 7 on free image manipulation software. Get one or more of these packages and look through them. Chances are excellent that the image converter you were going to write is already there. But if you still want one of the format documents, many such files are available by anonymous ftp from titan.rice.edu (128.42.1.30) in directory public/graphics.formats. These files were collected off the net and are believed to be correct. This archive includes pixel formats, and two- and three-dimensional object formats. Other file format descriptions are welcome, send to Mark Hall <foo@rice.edu>. -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -- University of Erlangen, Germany E-mail: G=Markus;S=Kuhn;OU1=rrze;OU2=cnve;P=uni-erlangen;A=dbp;C=de