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From: wjs@fred.cs.washington.edu (William Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Unsupported TIFF question
Summary: I doubt it.
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Date: 7 Jun 90 12:05:06 GMT
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giant@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Buc Richards) writes:
>Many of the TIFF files stored on the NeXT library, particularly those
>in the Webster Dictionary pictures file, appear to have a non-standard
>TIFF format.

>Can I get a description of this TIFF extension and the associated
>compression scheme?

Probably not.  Imagine that you were Webster, and NeXT asked you if they
could take all your pictures and digitize them.  What would you say?
"Sure, but encode them so they aren't any good on any other machine."

Note: This is my guess, but it's an educated guess.  I've seen this question
asked before, and I've never seen it answered.  NeXT has been real good about
providing people with info they want them to have, so I'm assuming they have
a reason for not providing that format.

-william shipley