rfc2301.txt

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   the individual fax modes. These sections also specify the ITU-
   compatible field values (image parameters) for each mode.





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   The full set of permitted fields of TIFF for facsimile are included
   in the current TIFF specification, Section 2 of this document and the
   sections on specific modes of facsimile operation. This document
   defines profiles of TIFF for facsimile, where a profile is a subset
   of the full set of permitted fields and field values of TIFF for
   facsimile.

   Section 3 defines the minimal black-and-white facsimile mode (Profile
   S), which is required in all implementations. Section 4 defines the
   extended black-and-white fax mode (Profile F), which provides a
   standard definition of TIFF-F. Section 5 describes the lossless
   black-and-white mode using JBIG compression (Profile J). Section 6
   defines the base color mode, required in all color implementations,
   for the lossy JPEG representation of color and grayscale facsimile
   data (Profile C). Section 7 defines the lossless JBIG color and
   grayscale facsimile mode (Profile L) and Section 8 defines the Mixed
   Raster Content facsimile mode (Profile M). Each of these sections
   concludes with a table summarizing the required and recommended
   fields for each mode and the values they can have.

   Section 9 describes the MIME content type image/tiff and the use of
   the optional Application parameter in connection with TIFF for
   facsimile. Sections 10, 11, 12 and 13 give Security Considerations,
   the ISOC Copyright Notice, References and Authors' Addresses. Annex A
   gives a summary of the TIFF fields used or defined in this document
   and provides a convenient reference for implementors.

   To implement only the minimal interchange black-and-white set of
   fields and values (Profile S), one need read only Sections 1, 2, 3, 9
   and 10.

   The following tree diagram shows the relationship among profiles and
   between profiles and coding methods.

                                S (MH)
                               / \
                       B&W    /   \   Color
                  ------------     ----------
                 /      \                    \
                /        F (MMR, MR)          C (JPEG)
               /                             / \
              J (JBIG)                   ----   \
                                        /        \
                                       L (JBIG)   \
                                                   \
                                                    M (MRC)

   A profile is based on a collection of ITU-T facsimile coding methods.



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   For example, Profile S, the minimal mode, is based on Modified
   Huffman (MH) compression, which are defined in ITU-T Rec. T.4.
   Profile F specifies Modified Read (MR) and Modified Modified Read
   (MMR) compressions, which are defined in ITU-T Rec. T.4 and T.6.

   All implementations of TIFF for facsimile MUST implement Profile S,
   which is the root node of the tree. All color implementations of TIFF
   for facsimile MUST implement Profile C. The implementation of a
   particular profile MUST also implement those profiles on the path
   that connect it to the root node, and MAY optionally implement
   profiles not on the path connecting it to the root node. For example,
   an implementation of Profile M must also implement Profiles C and S,
   and may optionally implement Profile F, J or L. For another example,
   an implementation of Profile C must also implement Profile S, and may
   optionally implement Profile F or J.

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", " NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [REQ].

2. TIFF and Fax

2.1. TIFF Overview

   TIFF provides a means for describing, storing and interchanging
   raster image data. A primary goal of TIFF is to provide a rich
   environment within which applications can exchange image data. The
   current TIFF specification [TIFF] defines a commonly used, core set
   of TIFF fields known as Baseline TIFF. The current specification and
   TIFF Technical Notes 1 and 2 [TTN1, TTN2] define several TIFF
   extensions. The TIFF- based specification for fax applications uses a
   subset of Baseline TIFF fields, with selected extensions, as
   described in this document. In a few cases, this document defines new
   TIFF fields specifically for fax applications.

2.1.1. File Structure

   TIFF is designed for raster images, which makes it a good match for
   facsimile documents, which are multi-page raster images. Each raster
   image consists of a number of rows or scanlines, each of which has
   the same number of pixels, the unit of sampling. Each pixel has at
   least one sample or component (exactly one for black-and-white
   images).

   A TIFF file begins with an 8-byte image file header. The first two
   bytes describe the byte order used within the file. Legal values are
   "II" (0x4949) when bytes are ordered from least to most significant
   (little- endian), and "MM" (0x4D4D), when bytes are ordered from most



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   to least significant (big-endian) within a 16- or 32-bit integer.
   Either byte order can be used, except in the case of the minimal
   black-and-white mode, which SHALL use value "II". The next two bytes
   contain the value 42 that identifies the file as a TIFF file and is
   ordered according to the value in the first two bytes of the header.
   The last four bytes give the offset that points to the first image
   file directory (IFD). This and all other offsets in a TIFF file are
   with respect to the beginning of the TIFF file. An IFD can be at any
   location in the file after the header but must begin on a word
   boundary.

   An IFD is a sequence of tagged fields, sorted in ascending order by
   tag value. An IFD consists of a 2-byte count of the number of fields,
   a sequence of field entries and a 4-byte offset to the next IFD. The
   fields contain information about the image and pointers to the image
   data. Each separate raster image in the file is represented by an
   IFD.

   Each field entry in an IFD has 12 bytes and consists of a 2-byte Tag,
   2 bytes identifying the field type (e.g. short, long, rational,
   ASCII), 4 bytes giving the count (number of values or offsets), and 4
   bytes that either contain the offset to a field value stored outside
   the IFD, or, based on the type and count, the field value itself.
   Resolution and metadata such as dates, names and descriptions are
   examples of "long" field values that do not fit in 4 bytes and
   therefore use offsets in the field entry. Details are given in the
   TIFF specification [TIFF].

   A TIFF file can contain more than one IFD, where each IFD is a
   subfile whose type is given in the NewSubfileType field. Multiple
   IFDs can be organized either as a linked list, with the last entry in
   each IFD pointing to the next IFD (the pointer in the last IFD is 0),
   or as a tree, using the SubIFDs field in the primary IFD [TTN1]. The
   SubIFDs field contains an array of pointers to child IFDs of the
   primary IFD.

   Child IFDs describe related images, such as reduced resolution
   versions of the primary IFD image. The same IFD can point both to a
   next IFD and to child IFDs, and child IFDs can themselves point to
   other IFDs.

   All fax modes represent a multi-page fax image as a linked list of
   IFDs, with a NewSubfileType field containing a bit that identifies
   the IFD as one page of a multi-page document. Each IFD has a
   PageNumber field, identifying the page number in ascending order,
   starting at 0 for the first page. While a Baseline TIFF reader is not





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   required to read any IFDs beyond the first, an implementation that
   reads the files that comply with this specification SHALL read
   multiple IFDs. Only the Mixed Raster Content fax mode, described in
   Section 8, requires the use of child IFDs.

   The following figure illustrates the structure of a multi-page TIFF
   file.

                   +-----------------------+
                   |         Header        |------------+
                   +-----------------------+            | First IFD
                   |      IFD (page 0)     |<-----------+ Offset
               +---|                       |------------+
         Value |   +-----------------------+            |
        Offset +-->|      Long Values      |--+         |
                   +-----------------------|  | Strip   |
                   |       Image Data      |<-+ Offset  |
                   |     strip 1 page 0    |  |         |
                   +-----------------------+  |         |
                   |           :           |  :         |
                                                        |
                   +-----------------------+            | Next IFD
                   |      IFD (page 1)     |<-----------+ Offset
               +---|                       |------------+
         Value |   +-----------------------+            |
        Offset +-->|      Long Values      |--+         |
                   +-----------------------|  | Strip   |
                   |       Image Data      |<-+ Offset  |
                   |     strip 1 page 1    |  |         |
                   +-----------------------+  |         |
                   |     strip 2 page 1    |<-+         |
                   +-----------------------+  |         |
                   |          :            |  :         |
                                                        |
                   +-----------------------+            | Next IFD
                   |      IFD (page 2)     |<-----------+ Offset
                   |          :            |

2.1.2 Image Structure

   An IFD stores an image as one or more strips, as shown in the
   preceding figure. A strip consists of 1 or more scanlines (rows) of
   raster image data in compressed form. An image may be stored in a
   single strip or may be divided into several strips, which would
   require less memory to buffer. (Baseline TIFF recommends about 8k
   bytes per strip, but existing fax usage is typically one strip per
   image.)




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   Each IFD requires three strip-related fields: StripOffsets,
   RowsPerStrip and StripByteCounts. The StripOffsets field is an array
   of pointers to the strip or strips that contain the actual image
   data. The StripByteCounts field gives the number of bytes in each
   strip after compression. TIFF requires that each strip, except the
   last, contain the same number of scanlines, which is given in the
   RowsPerStrip field. This document introduces the new StripRowCounts
   field that allows a variable number of scanlines per strip, which is
   required by the Mixed Raster Content fax mode (Section 8).

   Image data is stored as uninterpreted, compressed image data streams
   within a strip. The formats of these streams follow the ITU-T
   Recommendations. The Compression field in the IFD indicates the type
   of compression, and other TIFF fields in the IFD describe image
   attributes, such as color encoding and spatial resolution.
   Compression parameters are stored in the compressed data stream,
   rather than in TIFF fields. This makes the TIFF representation and
   compressed data format specification independent of each another.
   This approach, modeled on [TTN2], allows TIFF to gracefully add new
   compression schemes as they become available.

   Some attributes can be specified both in the compressed data stream
   and within a TIFF field. It is possible that the two values will
   differ. When this happens for values required to interpret the data
   stream, then the values in the data stream take precedence. For
   informational values that are not required to interpret the data
   stream, such as author name, then the TIFF field value takes
   precedence.

2.1.3 TIFF File Structure for Fax Applications

   The TIFF specification has a very flexible file structure, which does
   not specify the ordering of IFDs, field values and image data in a
   file. Individual applications may require or recommend an ordering.

   This specification recommends that when using a TIFF file for
   facsimile, A multi-page fax document SHOULD be represented as a
   linked list of IFDs. It also recommends that a TIFF file for