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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Webster tiffs
Message-ID: <15576@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 01:27:30 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.183843.15489@cs.ubc.ca>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1991Jan29.183843.15489@cs.ubc.ca> burkhold@cs.ubc.ca (Thomas Burkholder) writes:
>Tiffs in the Websters dictionary are deliberately
>unsupported, I think due to a copyright thing
>with Webster... unless you wish to hack your
>own program to look at "unsupported tiffs"
>(remember you may have problems finding out just
>exactly what the unsupported format is)


   Actually, "unsupported" seems to mean just that. The Webster TIFFs
just happen to be compressed in a way that NeXT's Bitmap object can't
read. The tiff library on uunet.uu.net (pub/graphics/tiff.v2.2... I think)
will read them with no difficulty.


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