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Re: Tiff images with "short" Palette? [message #73955 is a reply to message #73868]

Wed, 08 December 2010 07:03

Matt[2]
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> From a *quick* read ofhttp://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/
> TIFF6.pdf, it would appear that it's more a limitation of IDL, and
> depending on which section of the spec you read it might be partially a
> limitation of the spec, which at one point defines the size of the color
> table as 3*2^BitsPerSample (seems to say you can have whatever size table
> you'd like), but in another section (specifically talking about grey scale
> images) says that BitsPerSample can either be 4 or 8 and somewhere says
> that the default for BitsPerSample is 1 (which is neither 4 nor 8 :-)

You found the same parts of the spec that I did.

> At this point, I'd point the "flying fickle finger of fault" mostly in the
> direction of IDL.

And came to the same conclusion that I did also. I put in a support
request. Let's see what happens.

Thanks everyone.

Matt

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