TIFF 6.0 Specification
Final—June 3, 1992
Section 1: Notation
Decimal and Hexadecimal
Unless otherwise noted, all numeric values in this document are expressed in
decimal. (“.H” is appended to hexidecimal values.)
Compliance
Is
and
shall
indicate mandatory requirements. All compliant writers and readers
must meet the specification.
Should
indicates a recommendation.
May
indicates an option.
Features designated ‘not recommended for general data interchange’ are consid-
ered extensions to Baseline TIFF. Files that use such features shall be designated
“Extended TIFF 6.0” files, and the particular extensions used should be docu-
mented. A Baseline TIFF 6.0 reader is not required to support any extensions.
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