Tagged Image File Format
<file format, graphics> (TIFF) A file format used for still-image
bitmaps, stored in tagged fields. Application programs can use the tags to
accept or ignore fields, depending on their capabilities.
While TIFF was designed to be extensible, it lacked a core of useful
functionality, so that most useful functions (e.g. lossless 24-bit colour)
requires nonstandard, often redundant, extensions. The incompatibility of
extensions has led some to expand "TIFF" as "Thousands of Incompatible File
Formats".
Compare GIF, PNG, JPEG.
(1997-10-11)
Nearby terms:
TACPOL « Tactile User Interface « tag « Tagged Image File
Format » tagged queueing » tagged types » tag name
