On 10/2/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Useful for subsequent editing?
Only if the tiff is high-dynamic-range or layered. For HDR images there are better formats we could support (radience .hdr, or openexr), and for layered images I don't believe many applications will correctly handle layered tiffs, so tiff isn't a good format there either. :(
I'm not recommending it as a format of choice for people who want to make their own images from scratch, or even saying that we should prioritize its support. I'm saying that it's not ideal to just upload everything as PNG or JPG just because that's the format we're going to use for display. In the case of an image that was originally TIFF, it might be fine in general to convert it to DjVu or XCF if you have a good converter, but it's not good in general to convert it to PNG/JPG/SVG as Emanuele was saying.