2017.08.26 15:22 "Re: [Tiff] Determining use of "w" or "w8" in TIFFOpen", by Paul Hemmer

I see, thank you.

But if a small file is saved with BigTIFF format, then the viewing software still must support BigTIFF, correct?

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From: tiff-bounces@lists.maptools.org <tiff-bounces@lists.maptools.org> on behalf of Paavo Helde <paavo@osa.pri.ee> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2017 11:14 AM

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Subject: Re: [Tiff] Determining use of "w" or "w8" in TIFFOpen

On 26.08.2017 17:54, Paul Hemmer wrote:

ie. can BigTIFF be used for files that are smaller than 4GB due to the compression?

Absolutely, you can encode a 100 byte file as BigTIFF, it's just a file format. Actually there is some wisdom in producing all TIFF files as BigTIFF regardless of size as this helps to ensure beforehand that the workflows using those files are prepared to work with large files.

hth