tiff and tga both start with 'T', that's about it  :-)

tiff are used a lot in publishing, printing etc.
Targa files were used a lot with Truevision graphics cards. I started using them
because they were about the only cross-platform truecolor format that was
standard at the time. Sure beats the pants off of .pcx


Stephen Lavedas wrote:

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

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This Micrografx Picture Publisher I have insists on TIFF as its
predominate format of choice. However I never use them. I have a tiff
file here off the internet which I was going to convert to tga and the
tiff doesn't even open so I can do it. Implies something specialized
about them, possibly a number of variants. Targas have variants too but
the only problem I've ever encountered in them is whether they are
compressed or not as far as a program or two is concerned when
attempting to use them. But anyway, the question of Gimp using tga files
is still up in the air far as I'm concerned. I'm on the Gimp Users
mailing list, I should check with it more often I suppose instead of try
and keep up in here... nah!


"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:
> 
> tiff and tga both start with 'T', that's about it  :-)
> 
> tiff are used a lot in publishing, printing etc.
> Targa files were used a lot with Truevision graphics cards. I started using them
> because they were about the only cross-platform truecolor format that was
> standard at the time. Sure beats the pants off of .pcx
> 
> Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> 
> > I seem to recall that tiffs and tgas are related...am I wrong?
> >
> > Steve
> >

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gimp W32 don't do TGA, gimp W32 does PNG.




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