On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:50:28 -0600, Joseph Tainter wrote: > Yes, PhotoPaint 8 will open an 8-bit BMP file but not an 8-bit TIF file. > Comparing the two, I find that the BMP file is about 25 mb and the TIF > file about 29 mb. So is the BMP file losing some information that is in > the TIF format?
I'm not sure. I'd have to see the tags in the TIFF file and the header for the BMP file. 4MB is a pretty big difference. Not big enough to explain a difference in 8-bit versus 12-bit (per component) color. Too big to be (easily) explained by "ancillary" information, like notes put in by the photographer, etc. > Is there a good reason not to save my scans in BMP rather than TIF? Well, there are a number of technical reasons, but if you're not distributing the images, probably not any practical ones. Technically, TIFF will be more widely supported and it supports a much larger variety of image types than BMP. For example, TIFF can easily handle 12-bit per component color and CMYK while BMP can't. TIFF readers might have trouble with it, but it's no problem to represent it in the TIFF data stream. TTYL, DougF - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
