TonyB wrote in message <37A2FB27.2FDBE2B4@panama.phoenix.net>...
>[Taken from Photoshop help file...]
>
>The Tagged-Image File Format (TIFF) is used to exchange files between
>applications and computer platforms. TIFF is a flexible bitmap image format
>supported by virtually all paint, image-editing, and page-layout
>applications. Also, virtually all desktop scanners can produce TIFF images.
>The TIFF format supports CMYK, RGB, and grayscale files with alpha
>channels, and Lab, indexed-color, and Bitmap files without alpha channels.
>TIFF also supports LZW compression. You can choose to save in a format that
>can be read either by IBM PC-compatible or Macintosh computers.Compressing
>a TIFF file decreases its file size but increases the time required to open
>and save the file. You can also read and save captions in TIFF files.


This is what makes TIFF so much fun to try to support :-)

Mark

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