Tiff specification

TIFF
Revision 6.0
Final — June 3, 1992

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Copyright
© 1986-1988, 1992 by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage and the Adobe copyright notice appears. If the majority of the document is copied or redistributed, it must be distributed verbatim, without repagination orreformatting. To copy otherwise requires specific permission from the Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Licenses and Trademarks
PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. All instances of the name PostScript in the text are references to the PostScript language as defined by Adobe Systems Incorporated unless otherwise stated. The name PostScript also is used as a product trademark for AdobeSystems’ implementation of the PostScript language interpreter. Any references to a “PostScript printer,” a “PostScript file,” or a “PostScript driver” refer to printers, files, and driver programs (respectively) which are written in or support the PostScript language. The sentences in this specification that use “PostScript language” as an adjective phrase are so constructed to reinforce that thename refers to the standard language definition as set forth by Adobe Systems Incorporated. PostScript, the PostScript logo, Display PostScript, Adobe, the Adobe logo, Adobe Illustrator, Aldus, PageMaker, TIFF, OPI, TrapWise, Tran-Script, Carta, and Sonata are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries, and may be registered in some jurisdictions. Apple, LaserWriter, andMacintosh are registered trademarks and Finder and System 7 are trademarks of Apple, Computer, Inc. Microsoft and MS-DOS are registered trademarks and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Novell, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Production Notes
Thisdocument was created electronically using Adobe PageMaker® 6.0.

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Contents
Introduction ....................................................................................................................4
About this Specification ...................................................................... 4 Revision Notes..................................................................................... 6 TIFF Administration .............................................................................8 Information and Support ......................................................................... 8 Private Fields and Values ...................................................................... 8 Submitting a Proposal............................................................................ 9 The TIFF Advisory Committee ............................................................... 9 Other TIFF Extensions ...........................................................................9

Part 1: Baseline TIFF ....................................................................................................11
Section 1:Notation ............................................................................ 12 Section 2: TIFF Structure ..................................................................13 Section 3: Bilevel Images ..................................................................17 Section 4: Grayscale Images ............................................................ 22 Section 5: Palette-color Images...