TIFF 6.0 Specification
Final—June 3, 1992
Fields
In addition, there are some new fields, all of which are optional.
InkSet
Tag
= 332 (14C.H)
Type = SHORT
N
=1
The set of inks used in a separated (PhotometricInterpretation=5) image.
1 = CMYK. The order of the components is cyan, magenta, yellow, black. Usually, a
value of 0 represents 0% ink coverage and a value of 255 represents 100% ink
coverage for that component, but see DotRange below. The InkNames field
should not exist when InkSet=1.
2 = not CMYK. See the InkNames field for a description of the inks to be used.
Default is 1 (CMYK).
NumberOfInks
Tag
= 334 (14E.H)
Type = SHORT
N
=1
The number of inks. Usually equal to SamplesPerPixel, unless there are extra
samples.
See also ExtraSamples.
Default is 4.
InkNames
Tag
= 333 (14D.H)
Type = ASCII
N
= total number of characters in all the ink name strings, including the
NULs.
The name of each ink used in a separated (PhotometricInterpretation=5) image,
written as a list of concatenated, NUL-terminated ASCII strings. The number of
strings must be equal to NumberOfInks.
The samples are in the same order as the ink names.
See also InkSet, NumberOfInks.
No default.
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