Lidt yderligere læsestof for dem der kan lide sådan noget:
http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/faq.htmlSpecielt det her afsnit tror jeg har afgørende betydning for valget af tiff-filer som det primære billedformat til tryk.
Another major difference between most other image file formats and TIFF, is that TIFF allows for a wide range of different compression schemes and color spaces. These are specified in dedicated tags. Where other file formats are often designed to suit a single compression method, TIFF allows for JPEG or JBIG compression, the infamous LZW or the free-as-a-bird deflate compression, amongst many others. The same goes for color spaces. Theoretically, you could even use any compression method and color space of your own, though it goes without saying this would result in crippled portability.
Unless restricted by the nature of the chosen compression algorithm, any color space and any bitdepth can be combined with any compression scheme.
And the same goes for bitdepths and datatypes, too. One of the powerful TIFF features is support for a wide range of data types. You can store signed or unsigned integers, floating point values and even complex data in the TIFF file. Combined with the possibility to store an arbitrary number of image channels, this makes TIFF a very useful format to store scientific data.