on 27/9/04 10:01 pm, Bertho wrote: > What Adobe presumably has done, and have the weight behind it to do, is to > create a standard format that all companies can reshuffle the data and drop > it into that pre-defined structure.
I'm presuming that Adobe have just thrown their weight behind hijacking the TIFF data structure by renaming it DNG. They have to call it an "open" standard because even they don't have the balls to pretend that there is *any* originality in DNG. If you take the TIFF 6.0 format and add a couple features then all you get is a TIFF 6.0 file with some extra data. The TIFF format is intended to accommodate additional data - it was designed to do this. One wonders why it isn't called TIFF 7.0 - but Adobe wouldn't get any PR mileage out of that would they? (It uses Huffman lossless JPEG compression for those who were curious about file size) -- Martin Orpen Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists http://www.idea-digital.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
