TIFF Documentation

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A copy of the 6.0 specification is available by public ftp at

This is a PostScript version of the final 6.0 specification compressed the standard UNIX compress(1) program. An uncompressed PostScript file is also available as TIFF6.ps in the same directory. Adobe (nee Aldus) also provides the 6.0 spec online in Acrobat format (PDF); this can be found at TIFF Technical Notes can be retrieved from


Sam Leffler / sam@engr.sgi.com. Last updated: $Date: 1996/04/29 19:18:06 $