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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Re: NeXT's Tiff format
Message-ID: <6047@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Jan 89 15:04:42 GMT
References: <18758@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <14290002@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
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In article <14290002@hpsemc.HP.COM> mbk@hpsemc.HP.COM (Miles Kehoe) writes:
>Ali, is the compression scheme other than one of those described
>in the TIFF spec? As i recall, the spec describes 4 possible
>values for tag 0x103:  1, No compression.  2, CCITT modified
>Huffman run length encoding. 5, LZW compression.  32773,'packbits'
>a la mac.  

The compression scheme is different than any described in the TIFF specs;
it's one that worked best for Webster pictures. It's not documented with
the 0.8 documentation.

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com