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TIFF
Date added 3 October 2007
Last edited 11 November 2009
Full Title
Tagged Image File Format
Description
TIFF is designed to describe and store raster image data produced by digital cameras, scanners, frame grabbers and photographic manipulation software, with the aim of efficient image data exchange in a rich environment, which takes account of differentials in hardware capability. TIFF is designed to be backwards compatible.
TIFF Revision 6.0, defines a tag-based file descriptor that can characterise almost any form of 2D raster data using either ASCII or binary (byte, short, long or rational) coding. Private tags and enumerated values can be used, on application to the Adobe TIFF Administrator, to allow additional parameters to be added to the descriptor.
Standards Developing Organisation
- Adobe
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
Rights
No information available
Lifecycle Actions
- Access, Use and Reuse
- Create or Receive
- Data
- Migrate
- Preservation Planning
Standard Frameworks
- Digital Archive Standards
- Electronic Records Management Standards
Standard Type
- File Formats
Current Version
- 3 June 1992 - TIFF Revision 6.0 [external PDF]
Further Information
- Adobe Pagemaker 6.0, TIFF Technical Notes [external PDF]
- TIFF Specification Supplement 1 - enhancements for Adobe Pagemaker 6.0 Software
- Adobe Photoshop TIFF Technical Notes [external PDF]
- TIFF Specification Supplement 2 - Enhancements for Adobe Photoshop software
- Adobe\\\'s TIFF pages [external]
- Wikipedia entry for TIFF [external]
Alternative Current Versions
None.
Previous Versions
- 30 April 1987 - (Tag Image File Format Rev 4.0) [external]
- No longer available from the Adobe website, but available at the above url for the time being.
- 8 August 1988 - (TIFF Revision 5.0) [external]
- No longer available from the Adobe website, but available at the above url for the time being.
Referenced Standards
- ANSI IT8.7/1 - 1993 (R2003) - Graphic Technology - Color Transmission Target for Input Scanner Calibration
- ANSI IT8.7/2 - 1993 (R2003) Graphic Technology - Color Reflection Target for Input Scanner Calibration
- ANSI IT8.7/3 - 1993 (R2003) Graphic Technology - Input Data for Characterization of 4-color Process Printing
- CIE 1931 Standard Observer
- IEEE 754 -1985: Standard for Binary Floating-point Arithmetic
- ISO/IEC 10918-1:1994, Information Technology - Digital Compression and Coding of Continuous-Tone Still Images: Requirements and Guidelines
- ITU-T Recommendation BT.709-1 (11/93), November 1993, Basic parameter values for the HDTV Standard for the Studio and for International Programme Exchange
- ITU-T Recommendation T.6, November 1988, Facsimile Coding Schemes and Coding Control Functions for Group 4 Facsimile Apparatus
- Kodak PhotoYCC Colour Space for PhotoCD Images, 1992