From cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov Tue Oct 25 16:42:09 1994 X-VM-Summary-Format: "%n %*%a %-17.17F %-3.3m %2d %4l/%-5c %I\"%s\"\n" X-VM-Labels: nil X-VM-VHeader: ("Resent-" "From:" "Sender:" "To:" "Apparently-To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Date:") nil X-VM-Bookmark: 1 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1316" "" "21" "October" "1994" "11:58:01" "GMT" "Robert F. Cahalan" "cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov" nil "31" "Re: TIFF Formats" "^From:" nil nil "10" nil nil (number " " mark " Robert F. Cahalan Oct 21 31/1316 " thread-indent "\"Re: TIFF Formats\"\n") nil] nil) Path: saips.cv.nrao.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!darwin.sura.net!news.larc.nasa.gov!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!usenet Newsgroups: sci.data.formats Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <388ac9$f87@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert F. Cahalan) Subject: Re: TIFF Formats Date: 21 Oct 1994 11:58:01 GMT In article pvs@nit.pactel.com (P.V. Suryanarayana) writes: > I need some information on How to write image files in TIFF formats. > ...............STUFF DELETED ..................... What you need, PV, is the TIFF 6.0 spec, and Sam Leffler's public domain tiff code. You can get both by anonymous ftp: --------------------- ftp ftp.uu.net anonymous username@ cd graphics/tiff bin get TIFF6.ps.Z quit uncompress TIFF6.ps.Z --------------------- Print it and study it. To read tiff, you have to learn how to "follow the pointers", and you have to have a dictionary for the various "tags". There may be color info in the file, and lots of other stuff, but the philosophy is to store EVERYTHING YOU NEED in that one file. In fact, a single tiff file can hold several frames of an animation, possibly in some compressed format, as explained in detail in the TIFF6 spec. --Bob-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .Dr. Robert F. Cahalan (Bob)...#..Laboratory for Atmospheres...... .cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov..#..NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center .*** NeXTMail accepted ***.....#..Greenbelt, MD 20771............. .FAX: (301) 286-1627...........#..voice: (301) 286-4276........... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~