Re: [hylafax-users] TIFF-FX support

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Underwood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> TIFF-FX is now quite an old spec, yet support seems almost 
> non-existant. There was stuff around years ago to add the new tags 
> introduced by TIFF-FX to libtiff, yet the latest libtiff 4.0.0 beta 
> still doesn't recognise them. Does anyone know why they never made it in?
>
> (Yes, I release this isn't the libtiff mailing list, but asking FAX 
> related libtiff questions generally works better on this list) 

Were these licensing issues ever resolved? :

http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/2001-August/002907.php

I see libtiff mailing list discussion spinning TIFF-FX in the following 
threads, but I wonder if there aren't patent encumbrances that have kept 
its support out of libtiff.

http://www.asmail.be/msg0055242217.php
http://www.asmail.be/msg0055080138.php

It's my guess, however, that any lack of TIFF-FX support in libtiff is 
merely due to previous lack of interest in the libtiff-using community.  
I suspect that it's going to take someone interested enough in this to 
get the necessary code work done, post it on the libtiff Bugzilla, and 
promote its incorporation on the libtiff mailing lists.

(If you act quickly you may be able to get this in to the 4.0 release.  
And I'd advise that since libtiff is a slow-moving creature.  Note that 
the added monochrome JBIG support in 3.9 has taken me years to get where 
it is now, and 3.9 is *still* in beta.)

Thanks,

Lee.


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