For anyone who works with graphics, TIFF offers a number of advantages. TIFF is the standard image interchange format for facsimile transmissions, desktop publishing software, document interchanges, and document management systems. A TIFF graphic can be proportionally resized without loss of resolution, unlike bit-mapped graphic formats whose video display or printer output resolution degrades when the original dimensions of the graphic are changed.
As more and more applications tailored for the Windows environment have appeared, most developers of word processing, graphics, desktop publishing, and other sophisticated software have included TIFF import and/or export functionality in their products, recognizing the marketplace demand for such capabilities.
In short, TIFF offers developers a powerful and flexible graphics file format compatible for use on a huge installed base of Windows users.