Re: Questions for more experienced users

Chris Cox <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:05:45 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.openexr.user
Message-ID <C2037DE9.4F325%[email protected]>
No, OpenEXR has added as many flavors, possibly more.

Yes, there can be bugs in some applications that prevent interoperation -
but the same is true for any file format.

It sounds like you're avoiding TIFF because you just don't know TIFF.

Chris



On 2/22/07 1:45 PM, "John Coldrick" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thursday 22 February 2007 16:36, Chris Cox wrote:
>> I do find it amusing that most of the "advantages" of OpenEXR he lists
>> apply equally to TIFF and libTIFF.  About the only thing missing from TIFF
>> is the channel naming convention.
> 
> ...and a lack of 1000 flavours that render constant exchange problems between
> platforms and applications.  That's why we avoid tiff as much as we can.
> 
> J.C.