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What is a .tif file?

What do I need to read a .tif file ?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    should open in paint, its an image file.

  • 1 decade ago

    Tag Image File Format", was used as a subtitle in some earlier versions of the TIFF specification. The current TIFF specification, TIFF 6.0, makes no mention of these phrases; the name is now, simply, "TIFF".

    TIFF was originally created as an attempt to get desktop scanner vendors of the mid-1980s to agree on a common scanned image file format, rather than have each company promulgate its own proprietary format. In the beginning, TIFF was only a binary image format (only two possible values for each pixel), since that was all that desktop scanners could handle. As scanners became more powerful, and as desktop computer disk space became more plentiful, TIFF grew to accommodate grayscale images, then color images. Today, TIFF is a popular format for high-color-depth images, along with JPEG and PNG. Adobe Systems,

  • 1 decade ago

    Tif is a picture file, Paint.net should open it, an excellent open source image editor.

  • 1 decade ago

    Tagged Image File. This is a graphics file. Most graphics programs can read it.

    Try the GIMP.

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  • 1 decade ago

    a .tif is a picture file, here is more info on it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF

    I do believe windows picture viewer that comes with windows opens them, if not then irfanview definitely does, google irfanview and download it. good luck

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