2017.08.26 13:56 "[Tiff] Determining use of "w" or "w8" in TIFFOpen", by Paul Hemmer

2017.08.26 17:44 "Re: [Tiff] Determining use of "w" or "w8" in TIFFOpen", by Paavo Helde

Yes, of course. If the intent is to reach the widest possible audience then standard TIFF would still be a better option than BigTIFF.

On 26.08.2017 18:22, Paul Hemmer wrote:

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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On 26.08.2017 17:54, Paul Hemmer wrote:

>> 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