Re: Conversion to PCL question...

From	Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: Conversion to PCL question...
Date	2011-04-03 20:02 +0000
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On 2011-04-03, luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Or maybe the situation has changed in the 10 years since I was
> doing more of that kind of stuff. In circa 1998, TIFF was the only
> output format from windows software that could be input for
> pagemaker on a mac. Or maybe it was just the first one I tried that
> worked!
>
> But the differences between the two formats seem to stem from a
> basic design difference. Whereas TIFF was created with extensibility
> built-in, BMP has had to be specialized and reinvented because its
> design reflected no such planning. I think /The Art of Unix
> Programming/
> has something to say about this. There's no such thing as an OS/2
> variant of TIFF! [I thumbed through the /Encyclopedia of Graphics File
> Formats/ while writing this. But I didn't read anything carefully.]

> I suspect BMP is simple to implement if you stick to just a few
> variants. Whereas if you can get a TIFF implementation to work
> at all, it should work with anything.

Instead of 4 or 5 variants of uncompressed BMP (which, in essentail
details, differ ONLY by layout of fields, not by their meaning, so may
be supported by just choosing an appropriate "struct" in C parlance)
there is an almost infinite variety of TIFF flavors.

I do not know about any print mini-lab which would support TIFF
compressed in ANY way.  A lot of image viewers do not support
ZIP-compressed TIFF (in image magick or Hugin parlance).  Mac does not
support almost any flavor of TIFF (as shipped).  iPhones are cracked
using bugs in libTIFF.  Etc etc etc.

Ilya

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    Re: Conversion to PCL question... "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-04 11:58 -0400
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      Re: Conversion to PCL question... luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-05 22:57 -0700
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          Re: Conversion to PCL question... "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-06 07:37 -0400
  Re: Conversion to PCL question... luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-01 23:09 -0700
    Re: Conversion to PCL question... Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-04-02 22:08 +0000
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        Re: Conversion to PCL question... Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-04-03 20:02 +0000
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