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> Ick - TIFF is an evil, encumbered format. Use PNGs (which also use > more efficient and free lossless compression algorithms): I'm not sure what you're thinking of here. TIFF is a file format, not an image encoding scheme. Inside that TIFF file may be a raw RGB image, or a RLE (run length-encoded) image, or some proprietary compression format, or indeed a PNG image. The thing that makes it TIFF, and the reason journals tend to request it, is that at the front of the file is a header section that contains envelope information like desired image size, resolution, enddian-ness, comments, and a whole slew of other things. So it actually is more reasonable to request TIFF than a bare PNG file for this purpose, since the PNG standard doesn't even *have* a way of providing such envelope information. There are some hackish work-arounds that stuff it into a comment records, but it is widely ignored, or interpreted idiosynchratically, by image display programs. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742
