flexfax: Viewing TIFF on WinNT for HylaFAX

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, David Woolley wrote:

> To: Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>
> Cc: sinisa@coresinc.com, flexfax@fddi-sgi.engr.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: flexfax: Fwd: Hylafax
> 
> > depending on your settings. Yes, this is TIFF. No, many graphic
> > viewers cannot handle it properly, being written for more commonly
> > used *versions* of TIFF.
> 
> The problem with TIFF is that people think it is a graphics format, when
> it is really a format for describing graphics format.  TIFF viewers may
> only understand a limited number of the possible formats.  The T stands
> for tag; the tags label parameters about the image, including which basic
> format it is.
>
> Like Postscript Level 2, TIFF can contain data in essentially GIF and
> JPEG formats, as well as raw bit maps and fax encodings.

Thank you: this was clear and doubtless will help others in the future.

> Incidentally the Wang Imaging Tool, bundled with NT 4, can view Hylafax
> generated TIFF(G3) documents.

This is even better: I am retitling this message so it shows up in
the subject line on the mailing list archives.

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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