kgreen@pro-angmar.UUCP (Kevin Green) (07/02/90)
In-Reply-To: message from bruce@archive.rtp.dg.com I have an IFF file conversion program I got from America Online some time ago. I've never tried it on a TIFF file...are they the same (I'm obviously not an IBMer).
toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (07/07/90)
kgreen@pro-angmar.UUCP (Kevin Green) writes: >I have an IFF file conversion program I got from America Online some time >ago. I've never tried it on a TIFF file...are they the same (I'm obviously not >an IBMer). TIFF and IFF are NOT the same formats. TIFF is "Tagged Image File Format." It is very generic and inefficient but is very powerful in what it can represent. To my knowledge, only high-end graphics systems use TIFF extensively. IFF is "Interchange File Format," a very well-designed generic file format standard developed by Commodore and Electronic Arts. IFF pictures are really ILBM ("InterLeaved Bit Map") because IFF is an 'umbrella specification' which can support all kinds of data types because it is very extensible. SoundSmith instruments conform to IFF specifications; their IFF data type is ASIF. Apple has also defined AIFF for digitized sounds, and at least SoundEdit on the Mac supports it. (Decoding AIFF files for simple playback is a joke, if anyone wants a program to do it let me know.) Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu