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File Format for Internet Fax


0. Frontpage
1. Introduction
1.1. Scope
1.2. Approach
1.3. Overview of this draft
2. TIFF and Fax
2.1. TIFF Overview
2.1.1. File Structure
2.1.2. Image Structure
2.1.3. TIFF File Structure for Fax Applications
2.2. TIFF Fields for All Fax Applications
2.2.1. TIFF fields required for all fax modes
2.2.2. Additional TIFF fields required for all fax modes
2.2.3. TIFF fields recommended for all fax modes
2.2.4. New TIFF fields recommended for fax modes
3. Minimal Black-and-White Fax Mode
3.1. Overview
3.2. Required TIFF Fields
3.2.1. Baseline fields
3.2.2. Extension fields
3.2.3. New Fields
3.3. Recommended TIFF Fields
3.4. End of Line (EOL) and Return to Control (RTC)
3.4.1. RTC Exclusion
3.5. File Structure
3.6. Minimal Black-and-white Mode Summary
4. Extended Black-and-White fax mode
4.1. TIFF-F Overview
4.2. Required TIFF Fields
4.2.1. Baseline fields
4.2.2. Extension fields
4.2.3. New fields
4.3. Recommended TIFF fields
4.3.1. Baseline fields
4.3.2. Extension fields
4.3.3. New fields
4.4. Technical Implementation Issues
4.4.1. Strips
4.4.2. Bit Order
4.4.3. Multi-Page
4.4.4. Compression
4.4.5. Example Use of Page-quality Fields
4.4.6. Practical Guidelines for Writing and Reading Multi-Page TIFF-F Files
4.4.7. Use of TIFF-F for Streaming Applications
4.5. Implementation Warnings
4.5.1. Uncompressed data
4.5.2. Encoding and Resolution
4.5.3. EOL byte-aligned
4.5.4. EOL
4.5.5. RTC Exclusion
4.5.6. Use of EOFB for T.6 Compressed Images
4.6. Example Use of TIFF-F
4.7. Extended Black-and-white Fax Mode Summary
5. Lossless JBIG Black-and-White Fax Mode
5.1. Overview
5.2. Required TIFF Fields
5.2.1. Baseline fields
5.2.2. Extension fields
5.2.3. New fields
5.3. Recommended TIFF Fields
5.4. Lossless JBIG Black-and-white Fax Mode Summary
6. Base Color Fax Mode
6.1. Overview
6.2. Required TIFF Fields
6.2.1. Baseline Fields
6.2.2. Extension Fields
6.2.3. New Fields
6.3. Recommended TIFF Fields
6.4. Base Color Fax Mode Summary
7. Lossless Color Mode
7.1. Overview
7.1.1. Color Encoding
7.1.2. JBIG Encoding
7.2. Required TIFF Fields
7.2.1. Baseline Fields
7.2.2. Extension Fields
7.2.3. New Fields
7.3. Recommended TIFF Fields
7.4. Lossless Color Fax Mode Summary
8. Mixed Raster Content Mode
8.1. Overview
8.1.1. MRC 3-layer model
8.1.2. A TIFF Representation for the MRC 3-layer model
8.2. Required TIFF Fields
8.2.1. Baseline Fields
8.2.2. Extension Fields
8.2.3. New Fields
8.3. Recommended TIFF Fields
8.4. Rules and Requirements for Images
8.5. MRC Fax Mode Summary
9. MIME content-type image/tiff
9.1. Refinement of MIME content-type image/tiff for Facsimile Applications
10. Security Considerations
11. References
12. Authors' Addresses
13. Annex A: Summary of TIFF Fields for Internet Fax
13.1. Table A.1 TIFF Baseline Fields
13.2. Table A.2 TIFF Extension Fields
13.3. Table A.3 New Fields
14. Annex B. IANA Registration for image/tiff Application Parameter Values used for facsimile
15. Full Copyright Statement