RFC 2306 (rfc2306) - Page 1 of 25


Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - F Profile for Facsimile



Alternative Format: Original Text Document



Network Working Group                                        G. Parsons
Request for Comments: 2306                             Northern Telecom
Category: Informational                                     J. Rafferty
                                                   Human Communications
                                                             March 1998


         Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - F Profile for Facsimile


Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998).  All Rights Reserved.

Overview

   This document describes in detail the definition of TIFF-F that is
   used to store facsimile images.  The TIFF-F encoding has been
   folklore with no standard reference definition before this document.

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1.  Abstract

   This document references the Tag Image File Format (TIFF) to define
   the F profile of TIFF for facsimile (TIFF-F) as a file format that
   may be used for the storage and interchange of facsimile images.

2.  TIFF Definition

   TIFF (Tag Image File Format) Revision 6.0 is defined in detail within
   [TIFF].

   A brief review of concepts used in TIFF is included in this document
   as background information, but the reader is directed to the original
   TIFF specification [TIFF] to obtain specific technical details.





Parsons & Rafferty           Informational