I seem to recall that tiffs and tgas are related...am I wrong?

Steve


Ken wrote:
> 
> Bob Hughes wrote:
> >
> > This seemed curious to me that Gimp would be lacking in TGA use.
> 
>   I read a news posting in comp.graphic.misc this morning and a person was
> giving advice as to which, in his own inestimable opinion, graphics file
> formats were of the highest quality and popular for use. Of the top two
> mentioned were tiffs and eps.. There was no mention of tga or png and I
> seriously doubt he had ever given them more than a passing interest.
>   This attitude I feel must stem from the overwhelming amount of people
> using computers for graphics work primarily in word processing programs
> and that 2d paint stuff. Since the opinion of the majority is often
> slanted by what are the mainstream programs in use, such as MS publishing
> and Corel and Photo shop, they are only interested in the image file
> formats common to those programs. I thought about challenging him on
> his top choices but realized who I was dealing with and graciously
> moved on.
>   With this in mind I don't find it at all surprising when I find a
> program not supporting a format that I want supported. I often
> find out later that while the file type I want support for is not
> only adequate for it's applied use, there are times it is superior
> to the ones that are supported as popular and "best". The mainstream
> opinion has a lot of influence on what choices we may have tommorow.
> Almost like a self imposed dictatorship.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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