Fixed in master and 2.8. Thank you for reporting this. commit cd4d5e6d32169e0d642010b992ad401244db354d Author: Michael Henning Date: Fri Sep 20 19:05:18 2013 -0400 plug-ins: Use the standardized value for deflate compression in tiff-save. Ironically, the standardized value is called COMPRESSION_ADOBE_DEFLATE, while the vendor-specific value is called COMPRESSION_DEFLATE. On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Federico <federicotg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > I noticed GIMP 2.8.4 is writing the proprietary ZIP/Flate compression code > (0x80b2) when exporting images in TIFF format and selecting deflate > compression. > According to the TIFF Revision 6.0, Supplement 2 ( > http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFFphotoshop.pdf) the > value for the Compression tag should be 0008. > > I can confirm Gimp is writing the proprietary tag by exporting a deflated > tiff and running > > tiffdump 1.tif | grep Compression > Compression (259) SHORT (3) 1<32946> > > If I use imagemagick's mogrify to create the tiff > mogrify -path /home/user/ -compress Zip -depth 8 -format tif fotografía7.tif > > I get > tiffdump /home/user/fotografía7.tif | grep Compression > Compression (259) SHORT (3) 1<8> > > The compression algorithm is the same, only the code is changed for a > standard value. As TIFF is used for long term archiving, the generating the > files with the standard value is important for future implementations that > may not understand the proprietary tag. > > Should I file a bug? Do you think it is important? > > Here's a section of the spec: > > "Note: > A proprietary ZIP/Flate compression code (0x80b2) has been used by some > software vendors. This code > should be considered obsolete. The compression used by the obsolete code is > identical to that defined > above. We recommend that TIFF implementations recognize and read the > obsolete code, but only write the > official compression code (8)." > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list