newsletter archives - November, 2004

Volume 9. Issue 11.

[page 1][page 2][page 3] TIFF with JPEG Compression Support Expanded in Imaging Toolkits The Black Ice Software Engineering team recently expanded the Black Ice Imaging Toolkits to support additional JPEG compressed TIFF files.  The Black Ice Imaging toolkits prior to version 10.25 supported Type 6 JPEG compressed TIFF files exclusively, based on the TIFF standards.  When attempting to open a type 7 JPEG compressed TIFF file, the Black Ice Imaging toolkits prior to version 10.25 would report “Indispensable Tags are missing”. Version 10.25 of the Black Ice Imaging Toolkits adds support for type 7 JPEG compressed TIFF files, which is the recommended JPEG compression standard to be used, according to the TIFF specifications.  Additionally, any JPEG compressed TIFF files created with version 10.25 and higher will use type 7 compression by default.  Type 7 JPEG compressed TIFF files can be displayed by most common imaging products developed by companies such as Microsoft. Developers can visit the Black Ice website to download the latest evaluation toolkits for themselves.