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Subject: Re: NeXT's Tiff format
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Date: 5 Jan 89 20:21:10 GMT
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Here is some more info on the NeXT TIFF question.  To recap, the TIFF files
used in the Webster's dictionary could not be read into MacVision or Canvas
on the Macintosh (both these programs support TIFF, MacVision even creates
TIFF files, that Canvas can read).

I took some TIFF files from a Unix source and most of them could be read
on the Mac using a program called "Retouch".  Only some of these same
TIFF file could be read by Canvas.

Then I copied the TIFF file to the NeXT and made symbolic links from the
Webster's to my own TIFF files.  Webster's couldn't display anymore than
what looked liked random dots on the screen.

I then tried the NeXT TIFF files with Retouch on the Mac, and it failed to
read them also.

If TIFF is a standard, why isn't it standard :-)

Edward Moy				Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix
Workstation Support Services		Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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