TIFF 6.0 Specification Final—June 3, 1992
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Contents
Introduction ....................................................................................................................4
About this Specification ......................................................................4
Revision Notes .....................................................................................6
TIFF Administration .............................................................................8
Information and Support.........................................................................8
Private Fields and Values.......................................................................8
Submitting a Proposal ............................................................................9
The TIFF Advisory Committee ...............................................................9
Other TIFF Extensions ...........................................................................9
Part 1: Baseline TIFF....................................................................................................11
Section 1: Notation ............................................................................12
Section 2: TIFF Structure...................................................................13
Section 3: Bilevel Images ..................................................................17
Section 4: Grayscale Images ............................................................22
Section 5: Palette-color Images ........................................................23
Section 6: RGB Full Color Images ....................................................24
Section 7: Additional Baseline TIFF Requirements ........................26
Section 8: Baseline Field Reference Guide .....................................28
Section 9: PackBits Compression ....................................................42
Section 10: Modified Huffman Compression...................................43
Part 2: TIFF Extensions ..............................................................................................48
Section 11: CCITT Bilevel Encodings ..............................................49
Section 12: Document Storage and Retrieval..................................55
Section 13: LZW Compression .........................................................57
Section 14: Differencing Predictor ...................................................64
Section 15: Tiled Images ...................................................................66
Section 16: CMYK Images .................................................................69
Section 17: HalftoneHints..................................................................72
Section 18: Associated Alpha Handling...........................................77
Section 19: Data Sample Format ......................................................80
Section 20: RGB Image Colorimetry ................................................82
Section 21: YCbCr Images ................................................................89
Section 22: JPEG Compression .......................................................95
Section 23: CIE L*a*b* Images ........................................................110
Part 3: Appendices....................................................................................................116
Appendix A: TIFF Tags Sorted by Number ....................................117
Appendix B: Operating System Considerations ...........................119
Index ............................................................................................................................120
