Today, TIFF, along with JPEG and PNG, is a popular format for deep-color images. As scanners became more powerful, and as desktop computer disk space became more plentiful, TIFF grew to accommodate grayscale images, then color images. In the beginning, TIFF was only a binary image format (only two possible values for each pixel), because that was all that desktop scanners could handle. TIFF was created as an attempt to get desktop scanner vendors of the mid-1980s to agree on a common scanned image file format, in place of a multitude of proprietary formats. Several Aldus or Adobe technical notes have been published with minor extensions to the format, and several specifications have been based on TIFF 6.0, including TIFF/EP (ISO 12234-2), TIFF/IT (ISO 12639), TIFF-F (RFC 2306) and TIFF-FX (RFC 3949). It published the latest version 6.0 in 1992, subsequently updated with an Adobe Systems copyright after the latter acquired Aldus in 1994. The format was created by the Aldus Corporation for use in desktop publishing. TIFF is widely supported by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition, image manipulation, desktop publishing, and page-layout applications. Tag Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is a image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers. TIFF Supplement 2 / 22 March 2002 19 years ago ( ))Įxif, DCF, TIFF/EP, TIFF/IT, TIFF-FX, GeoTIFF

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