2008.02.06 10:01 "[Tiff] Why is TIFF/zip not a default option?", by Anders Sewerin Johansen

Hi,

We (The Royal Danish Library and partners) are investigating image formats for long term preservation and digital substitution.

Can anybody at the mailing list elaborate on why zip/deflate compression of image data is not enabled as a default in libtiff? Is it e.g. because it's still considered experimental, or is there some other reason (technical, legal, "inertia",...)?

Sincerely,
  Anders S. Johansen, KB-DK

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