TIF IMAGES

[Kocheace]

I Know I'm in the wrong forum for this type of question but hear me out. Is it possible to scan black and white and color images into One Tif file? IT Professional

 

[vb5prgrmr]

I belive so. I checked through some documentation and could not find anywhere where it said it could not.

Good Luck

 

[sfvb]

I remember having to decode some tiff files for a company I used to work for. (We were replicating scanned images, into a piece of 1/4" thick maple wood, using a CO2 laser. The cost was extremely prohibitive and was for show only. But when it sat next to an intricately cut piece of 1/2" stainless steel, it showed both the dexterity and power of the laser. Fun stuff to code at the time.)

It looks like your approaching it from the other end, the encoding side of it. But from what I remember, it either is, or should be possible to store more than one image using tiff. (I think you would want to use a lower lever language like C, C++, or Assembly to do this though, unless time isn't a concern.)

If you do a search on one of the following, you might get a definitive answer:
tiff + specification
tagged information file format
tiff + huffman runtime compression
tiff + compression
tiff + modified huffman

I did a preliminary search and this site may be of some use:

http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/TIFF6.pdf

Wish I could be of more help, but I barely remember what I had for breakfast this morning.

Steve

 

[vb5prgrmr]

sfvb,

Have you ever tried to use the Wang/Kodak imaging controls that have come with every MS OS from 95 to 2k? With controls like these (or from ScanSoft, Lead, Pegasus Imaging) it is quite easy to manuplate tiff images.

 

[strongm]

Yes, TIFF supports a multipage format. And teh Wang/Kodak imaging controls mentioned by vb5prgrmr supports that sort of TIFF.