TIFF Specification

The technical specification for the TIFF format is described in several files. Each of these files is an ASCII document except tiff6.ps, which is PostScript.

tiff6.ps

TIFF6.PS is a PostScript file describing TIFF 6.0.

note_60.txt

NOTE_60.TXT is a technical note describing serious problems that have been found in TIFF 6.0's design for embedding JPEG-compressed data in TIFF; a replacement TIFF/JPEG specification is given.

tiff_50.txt

TIFF_50.TXT is an ASCII document describing the major enhancements found in TIFF Revision 5.0.

tiff_40.txt

TIFF_40.TXT is an ASCII document describing TIFF Revision 4.0, a tag-based file format designed to promote the interchange of digital image data.

tiff_f.txt

TIFF_F.TXT is an ASCII document describing TIFF Class F, an effort to standardize facsimile hardware.