Tag(ged) Image File Format (TIFF) is a file format used for still-image bitmaps, stored in tagged fields. Application programs can use the tags to accept or ignore fields, depending on their capabilities.^[1]

History

While TIFF was designed to be extensible, it lacked a core of useful functionality, so that most useful functions (e.g. lossless 24-bit color) required nonstandard, often redundant, extensions. The incompatibility of extensions has led some to derisively expand "TIFF" as "Thousands of Incompatible File Formats".^[1]

References

External links

• tiff at Apple Developer
• Adobe Open Standards: TIFF at Adobe I/O
• The Unofficial TIFF Home Page by Niles Ritter at EarthLink (archived 1998-12-02)
• TIFF at the Adobe Wiki
• TIFF at Wikipedia

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