2012.02.10 11:12 "[Tiff] Versioning and Forks of LibTiff", by Simon Ochsenreither

2012.02.10 17:16 "Re: [Tiff] Versioning and Forks of LibTiff", by John

On 10 February 2012 16:44, Simon Ochsenreither <simon.ochsenreither@kit.edu> wrote:

I asked the question because I was more or less wondering if anyone knows obstacles which would prevent writing the images with the "real" LibTiff instead of the one from Aperio.

I think the big thing that Aperio added was support for jp2000 compression:

http://openslide.org/Aperio%20format

So if you need that compression mode, you need the Aperio library. No doubt there are other differences too.

John