On Fri, 2005-05-20 10:25:10 -0500, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
At 10:01 AM 5/20/2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
Only about 20% of tools I've come across over
the years actually
try and handle TIFFs properly
With tagged formats, the problem in my mind has always been
a lack of mechanism for an app to decide what to do with
unknown tags while processing a file. Do you throw out the
tags or keep them?
Ask the user. There's no sane way to decide wether a tag may be thrown
away or should be thrown away. Just two sample cases:
For astronomical use, you want to keep all tags. They contain
important image information (most important they contain RA and
declination as well as the size of the image).
If you're photoshop'ping your digital stil-camera's pictures,
you'd actually like to throw away the tags. Most prominent,
there are smaller preview images embedded that may or may not be
a "good" preview image after some servere photoshopping...
MfG, JBG
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