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From: aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer)
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Subject: Re: Multiple Images in a Single TIFF from Icon?
Keywords: Icon TIFF Argh
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Date: 23 Jun 91 23:43:59 GMT
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In article <1991Jun20.221058.16114@milton.u.washington.edu> William Jon Shipley writes:
>Anyone know how to save multiple images of different bit depths to a single
>TIFF file from Icon?
>The reason I want to do this is because I want to create icons that show up
>in color on color systems and grayscale on grayscale systems.  Now, I know
>this happens by default, but I want to hand-tune my grayscale bitmaps, which
>means including two icons in every file.

Editing multiple images in a single TIFF is not among Icon's many features.
However, the command line program "tiffutil" will do what you want:

	tiffutil -cat FooColor.tiff FooMonochrome.tiff -out Foo.tiff

Ali, Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com