12 Facts About TIFF

Tag Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers.

TIFF is widely supported by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition, image manipulation, desktop publishing, and page-layout applications.

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.

Today, TIFF, along with JPEG and PNG, is a popular format for deep-color images.

TIFF is a complex format, defining many tags of which typically only a few are used in each file.

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TIFF file contains one or several images, termed subfiles in the specification.

Baseline TIFF readers are only required to make use of the first subfile, but each IFD has a field for linking to a next IFD.

TIFF is a flexible, adaptable file format for handling images and data within a single file, by including the header tags defining the image's geometry.

TIFF offers the option of using LZW compression, a lossless data-compression technique for reducing a file's size.

TIFF readers are required to ignore tags that they do not recognize, and a registered developer's private tags are guaranteed not to clash with anyone else's tags or with the standard set of tags defined in the specification.

BigTIFF is a TIFF variant file format which uses 64-bit offsets and supports much larger files .

CGATS reviewed their alternatives for this purpose and TIFF seemed like the ideal candidate, except for the fact that it could not handle certain required functionalities.