[7169] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: The GIF format as intellectual property
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Litchfield)
Tue Jan 10 14:00:14 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 19:58:58 +0100
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From: litch@InterLink.NET (Robert Litchfield)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> TIFF should be fairly easy to add.
> TIFF is good
> TIFF supports 1bit to 24 bit images
> TIFF supports many styles of compression
> TIFF supports real alpha chanels (transparency)
> TIFF supports JPEG compression
> TIFF supports X, Y, and LWZ compression
> TIFF supports comments
> TIFF supports copyrights
> TIFF has a freely available library and is well debugged
> TIFF is supported by most all paint applications (GIF, JPEG are not)
> TIFF is good
I like the idea of the flexability of TIFF....I never realized it was so
useful....
Maybe I will change my vote for TIFF :)
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