[geeks] MTIFF files

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:01:11PM -0400, William Enestvedt wrote:
> > > When did multiple page TIFF documents become a standard?
> >
>    That TIFF, she gets around! There's a whole pile of extensions and
> varieties of the TIFF "standard" that most normal people will never hear of. I
> thought I _knew_ what a TIFF was and was for when I did prepress, and then I
> found out about TIFFs with embedded paths (from Scitex systems?), and
> mutli-page TIFFs, and faxed TIFFs, and TIFF with the Beatles' complete catalog
> embedded in them, etc., etc.
>    Funny how flexible a standard can be..

Tiffs are my favorite file format.  All those different modes and
options, and still it provides a library that is amazingly easy to work
with.  Much nicer than JPGs.