Mike Williams <mik### [at] nospamplease> wrote in 
news:430### [at] econymdemoncouk:

> LZW compression doesn't work at all.

I'm surprised that Pov even tries to do anything with LZW TIFFs at all 
given that the infamous Uni$y$ patent covers LZW in all forms, and that the 
equally infamous polymorphic LZW usage terms now appear to require 
royalties for decompression.

> Images are not checked for compatibility, POV just goes ahead and tries
> to decode them anyway.

Suggestion to developers: have you people looked at http://www.libtiff.org 
yet?  It might be a better option than the current POV TIFF loader.

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