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From: sears@dungeon.enet.dec.com (Chris Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Viewing TIFF files
Message-ID: <1990Nov3.022738.9034@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 3 Nov 90 02:27:38 GMT
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Alan,

	you should use XTiff.  XTiff displays all of the types of TIFF
images that I know of and that libtiff supports.  It manages the negotiation
of the correct visual and displays the image.  It doesn't dither images;
read that to mean that a 24-bit image can be displayed on a monochrome
framebuffer.  It does extend images; read that to mean that 2-bit images
can be displayed using 4-bit visuals.

	XTiff is on expo in contrib/xtiff.tar.Z and on uunet
in X/contrib/xtiff.tar.Z.  It requires Sam Leffler's libtiff library.


	Chris Sears
	sears@dungeon.pa.dec.com