Tagged Image File Format
| Filename extensions |
.tiff, .tif
|
|---|---|
| Internet media type |
|
| Type code | TIFF |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | public.tiff |
| Developed by | Aldus, now Adobe Systems |
| Initial release | 1986 |
| Latest release |
TIFF 6.0
(3 June 1992 TIFF Supplement 2 / 22 March 2002) |
| Type of format | Image file format |
| Extended from | tiff |
| Extended to | Exif, DCF, TIFF/EP, TIFF/IT, TIFF-FX, GeoTIFF |
| Website | partners |
| Filename extension | .fp, .ct, .lw, .hc, .mp, .bp, .bl, .sd |
|---|---|
| Internet media type | not defined |
| Developed by | ANSI, ISO |
| Initial release | 1993 |
| Latest release |
TIFF/IT
(2004) |
| Type of format | Image file format |
| Extended from | TIFF 6.0 |
| Standard | ISO 12639 |
Tagged Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is a computer file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers. The TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications, by publishing and page layout applications, and by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition and other applications.
The format was created by Aldus Corporation for use in desktop publishing. It published the latest version 6.0 in 1992, subsequently updated with an Adobe Systems copyright after the latter acquired Aldus in 1994. Several Aldus/Adobe technical notes have been published with minor extensions to the format, and several specifications have been based on TIFF 6.0, including TIFF/EP (ISO 12234-2), TIFF/IT (ISO 12639), TIFF-F (RFC 2306) and TIFF-FX (RFC 3949).
TIFF was created as an attempt to get desktop scanner vendors of the mid-1980s to agree on a common scanned image file format, in place of a multitude of proprietary formats. In the beginning, TIFF was only a binary image format (only two possible values for each pixel), because that was all that desktop scanners could handle. As scanners became more powerful, and as desktop computer disk space became more plentiful, TIFF grew to accommodate grayscale images, then color images. Today, TIFF, along with JPEG and PNG, is a popular format for high color-depth images.
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