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Supported image formats
TIFF support
Note:
The ImageQuick option
does not support JBIG
compression or IPCL TIFF
segments.
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Supported image formats
This section focuses on details not covered in the Overview section of
the ImageQuick option User's Guide.
The ImageQuick option supports the baseline TIFF file format as
described in the TIFF Revision 6.0 specification, published by the
Adobe Developers Association. The TIFF format allows for image
compression by numerous methods.
The option supports the following compression formats:
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TIFF RGB full color images
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TIFF palette full color images
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TIFF tiled images
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TIFF grayscale images (monochrome)
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TIFF CCITT Group 4
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TIFF CCITT Group 3 2D
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TIFF CCITT Group 3 1D
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TIFF Type 2
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TIFF PackBits
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TIFF Uncompressed
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TIFF LZW
CCITT Group 3 and 4 formats are often referred to as "fax
compression" methods. They were designed to be used by fax
machines for electronic data transmission. However, they are also
popular methods for storing documents electronically, particularly
Group 4. TIFF Type 2 is also called "Modified Huffman run-length
encoding," and is a variant of CCITT Group 3. TIFF PackBits is a
simple form of run-length encoding, which stores data as sequences
of uncompressed bytes or as repeat-counts.
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