tagged image file format

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tagged image file format - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Tagged Image File Format
  TIFF
  
     <file format, graphics> (TIFF) A file format used for
     still-image bitmaps, stored in tagged fields.  Application programs
      can use the tags to accept or ignore fields,
     depending on their capabilities.
  
     While TIFF was designed to be extensible, it lacked a core of
     useful functionality, so that most useful functions (e.g.
     lossless 24-bit colour) requires nonstandard, often
     redundant, extensions.  The incompatibility of extensions has
     led some to expand "TIFF" as "Thousands of Incompatible File
     Formats".
  
     Compare GIF, PNG, JPEG.
  
     (1997-10-11)