On 23 Aug 2004, at 22:38, Shangara Singh wrote:

JPEG 2000?...It's still a JPEG - contrary to rumours that it's a TIFF -
compressed but lossless.

TIFFs and JPEGs do not support the same features and, therefore, cannot
possibly be thought of as the same file format.

I understood that

1) tiff (Tagged image file format) was a file format, and that jpeg (Joint Photographic Expert Group) was an algorithm for compressing files, jpeg 2000 being a different and lossless form of compression.

2) A .jpeg or .jpg is a tiff format file that has been compressed using the jpeg compression algorithm.

Unfortunately what I understand and what is reality are often at odds with each other. Anyone care to enlighten me?

Matthew Ward

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