Product

Platform

Operating system

Error

Symptoms

The term RLE (run length encoding) is used to mean different things in different contexts:

In Prinergy and PostScript: RLE = Packbits

In the TIFF specification: RLE is not defined (but could be interpreted as TIFF compression type 2, which is a form of CCITT G3 compression)

In Copydot Toolkit / Scitex LW/LHS / TIFF/IT: RLE = Scitex LW Handshake run length encoding

So if someone was to take Prinergy RLE-compressed output into the Toolkit, the Toolkit will automatically detect the compression and say, correctly, that it is Packbits compression.

Cause

Solution

No permanent fix is planned. Prinergy 2.0 will continue to use the term RLE.

Permanent fix:

See also

Keywords

file formats, normalizer

Technical contact(s)

Kent Brothers

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