Specifications
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17.1. Raster Target Format
17.1.1 TIFF
“Tagged Image File Format (abbreviated TIFF) is a le format for storing images, pop-
ular among Apple Macintosh owners, graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both
amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of
Adobe Systems. Originally created by the company Aldus for use with what was then
called „desktop publishing“, the TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipula-
tion applications, by publishing and page layout applications, by scanning, faxing, word
processing, optical character recognition and other applications. Adobe Systems, which
acquired Aldus, now holds the copyright to the TIFF specication. TIFF has not had a
major update since 1992, several Aldus/Adobe technical notes have been published with
minor extensions to the format, and several specications have been based on the TIFF
6.0, including TIFF/EP (ISO 12234-2) and TIFF/IT (ISO 12639).
TIFF is a exible, adaptable le format for handling images and data within a single le,
by including the header tags (size, denition, image-data arrangement, applied image
compression) dening the image‘s geometry. For example, a TIFF le is a container
holding compressed (lossy) JPEG and (lossless) PackBits compressed images. (...)”
Source: Wikipedia, subject “TIFF”
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