TIFF
Tag Image File Format or Tagged Image File Format, commonly known by the abbreviations TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers. TIFF is widely supported by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition, image manipulation, desktop publishing, and page-layout applications. The format was created by the Aldus Corporation for use in desktop publishing. It published the latest version 6.0 in 1992, subsequently updated with an Adobe Systems copyright after the latter acquired Aldus in 1994. Several Aldus or Adobe technical notes have been published with minor extensions to the format, and several specifications have been based on TIFF 6.0, including TIFF/EP (ISO 12234-2), TIFF/IT (ISO 12639), TIFF-F (RFC 2306) and TIFF-FX (RFC 3949).
Wordmark of the TIFF Revision 6.0 | |
| Filename extensions | .tiff, .tif |
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| Internet media type |
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| Type code | TIFF |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | public.tiff |
| Magic number | 49 49 2A 00 or 4D 4D 00 2A |
| Developed by | Aldus Corporation, now Adobe Inc. |
| Initial release | September 12, 1986 |
| Latest release | TIFF 6.0 3 June 1992 TIFF Supplement 2 / 22 March 2002 |
| Type of format | Image file format |
| Extended from | tiff |
| Extended to | Exif, DCF, TIFF/EP, TIFF/IT, TIFF-FX, GeoTIFF |
| Website | www |