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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
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Subject: Re: NeXT's Tiff format
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Date: 4 Jan 89 21:25:58 GMT
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edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>In article <20213@ames.arc.nasa.gov> watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson) writes:
>>Every image I've seen on the NeXT is stored in a file which name ends 
>>in ".tiff".  What is the format for "tiff" images?   
>>Someone told me they thought it might be the same format as the Mac uses.
>
>I tried downloading a .tiff file to the Mac, but none of the Mac programs
>I've tried (MacVision, Canvas) can read it.  They complain of file format error.
>Anyone know why?

Not to add confusion to the issue, but I dropped by a dealer's shop and used a
scanner/Mac combo to get something for a particular drawing program we use
here at work.  I noticed that the scanner software and a drawing DA on the Mac
that I used with the scanner supported the TIFF format, but those are the only
two programs that I've seen with that option.

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