<file format, graphics> (TIFF) A file format used for
still-image bitmaps, stored in tagged fields. Application
programs can use the tags to accept or ignore fields,
depending on their capabilities.
While TIFF was designed to be extensible, it lacked a core of
useful functionality, so that most useful functions (e.g.
lossless 24-bit colour) requires nonstandard, often
redundant, extensions. The incompatibility of extensions has
led some to expand "TIFF" as "Thousands of Incompatible File
Formats".
Compare GIF, PNG, JPEG.
(1997-10-11)
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