What is a “TIFF” file?
Tiff (Tagged Image File Format) is an image file. Tiff is a widely accepted image format and that is because of its suitability for a wide range of applications. Tiff can maintain its quality irrespective of computer’s architecture, operating system, and graphics hardware. A TIFF file retains better image quality than a JPG or GIF file, especially when printing. Tiff is able to handle black-and-white, grayscale, and color images, allowing a user to adjust for the unique characteristics of a scanner, monitor, or printer.
TIFF is the short form of Tagged Image File Format. TIFF was developed by the Aldus Corporation in collaboration with various other contributors in 1986. It is a bitmapped image format that supports various resolutions. A TIFF file contains descriptive information about the image. A TIFF file is identified by a .tiff or a .tif file extension. TIFF file formats are used for storing very large, high quality images. TIFF is the favored image format in many graphic applications. These include image manipulation programs, desktop publishing and 3-D imaging applications. Other applications that use TIFF is optical recognition software and scanning and faxing applications. A TIFF version called GeoTIFF is used to store geo-referenced raster imagery. A TIFF file can have a maximum size of 4GB. This file size limitation is one of the drawbacks of TIFF. To get around it and to exceed the size boundary, the creation of a new TIFF file format called the BigTIFF file format has been proposed. The T
Tagged Image File Format is a common image file format, similar to JPEG and bitmap. TIFF files opened in Kurzweil 3000 are automatically converted into Kurzweil 3000 format, which can then be read. It can also be opened in WYNN, OpenBook, and Kurzweil 1000 in a similar way. TIFF does not retain any editing changes. Why is Editing Important? Other companies just scan books. Our scanning service includes zone editing, spell checking, page numbering, and chapter dividing.
I have been doing some family tree stuff. On one website when I save a file it ‘warns’ me that it is a TIFF file and do I want to continue, which I do…when I try to open it I get this. File Type: Unknown Description: Windows does not recognize this file type. I try to save the file as a JPEG, but no other options are given! Anyone help.
