Although I know this is off-topic, I understand what John Coldrick is saying.. however as an application development who's had to deal with Tiff, the only real basic interop is the LZW patent, and some companies like Mental Images who (while selling software for thousans of dollars) refused to support it. Personally I've had interop problems everytime we upgraded our OpenEXR version. It's just goes along with adding new features. Recently, apps have needed a libtiff upgrade for the new floating point compression scheme, however prior to that it hadn't changed in 10 years.
That LZW patent has expired, by the way. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Coldrick > Please, don't be patronizing. I'm an end-user, and we > use a lot of different file formats here, between different > departments. Don't start telling me I don't understand > something when countless applications and platforms bitch > and complain about tiff flavours, and OExr doesn't. There's > an army of people over on a 2D/3D list I'm on that beg > to differ with you, me among them. > > Design specs and "rules" are meaningless if they aren't > followed, or there's politics and lawsuits involved. OExr > isn't perfect, but here we've found it a far better solution > for day to day over tiff. Where it's currently weak is > in the range of supported applications, which we're hoping > will only improve. _______________________________________________ Openexr-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/openexr-user
