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Title: TIFF Files
Post by: JollyJim on June 30, 2003, 03:02:47 am

I've just bought a Fuji camera which stores it's uncompressed images in TIFF format. MC does'nt seem to support this format and I can't use it to acquire the images from the camera.

Is there any particular reason that MC does'nt support TIFF and is there a chance of including the format in the file associations?....please !!!

thanks - Jim

Title: Re: TIFF Files
Post by: Nikolay on June 30, 2003, 05:43:15 am

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Is there any particular reason that MC does'nt support TIFF and is there a chance of including the format in the file associations?

There was a reason, but it expired on 20th of June. So now we don't have any excuse not to implement support for GIF and TIFF files. I will see what we can do.

Regards,
Nikolay

Title: Re: TIFF Files
Post by: JollyJim on June 30, 2003, 06:40:44 am

Nikolay - thankyou.

That'll be another app that I can get rid of then.

Pretty soon, we won't even need M$ - JRiver will rule the world !!!

Thanks again - have a nice day

Jim

Title: Re: TIFF Files
Post by: Doof on June 30, 2003, 08:47:36 am

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There was a reason, but it expired on 20th of June. So now we don't have any excuse not to implement support for GIF and TIFF files. I will see what we can do.

Regards,
Nikolay

What was the reason, and why did it expire on June 20th? Some licensing thing?

Title: Re: TIFF Files
Post by: LonWar on June 30, 2003, 08:51:55 am

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What was the reason, and why did it expire on June 20th? Some licensing thing?

See when I read his responce I thought he was joking.

"I had a reason, But it expired ...." I thought he meant his reason expired,

Title: Re: TIFF Files
Post by: NoCodeUK on June 30, 2003, 09:13:22 am

The compression algorithm was licensed up until June 20th.  This was the intitial reason for the devlopment of PNG but the license has expired now so Gif and Tiff can be used free of charge...

Adam

Title: Re: TIFF Files
Post by: xen-uno on June 30, 2003, 09:25:24 am

Don't forget about PNG...

10^-27

Title: Re: TIFF Files
Post by: Ingo on June 30, 2003, 09:27:54 am

Adam,

right, but this is unfortunately only valid for US.
The patent wil be in charge for Europe and Japan until june 2004 ....

see
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=4558302.WKU.&OS=PN/4558302&RS=PN/4558302

for more information ;-)

Ingo

Title: Re: TIFF Files
Post by: ccclapp on September 22, 2003, 09:12:13 am

Has ther been any progress on this?  I have about 5000 negative scans in tiff format.  I would love to use MC as a photo viewer, adding folders of photos to photo "playlists".  I have several viewer programs, but the simplicity of this would be helpful...with so many images.

Thanks

--Caleb

Title: Re: TIFF Files
Post by: JimH on September 22, 2003, 09:14:59 am

Tiff has been supported by the 9.1 betas for a while.  There is a link on our downloads page.

Title: Re: TIFF Files
Post by: ccclapp on September 22, 2003, 09:17:47 am

...wow, blink and the question is answered!

Thanks Jim

--Caleb