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TIFF is a nightmare to read, because there are too many options. It tries to be a format of many other formats.
by TwoBit 11y ago
TIFF is a nightmare to read, because there are too many options. It tries to be a format of many other formats.
- maxst 11y agoa.k.a. Thousands of Incompatible File Formats. These days it's basically "what libtiff supports".
- gpvos 11y agoActually it is (or at least used to be) more like "what Photoshop supports". Libtiff implementers often look to what Photoshop does to see how to implement something. But libtiff has a very large influence too. (I don't think Photoshop supports BigTIFF yet.)