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tif vs TIF

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tif vs TIF Jeremy Nell 17 Feb 17:07
  tif vs TIF Chris Mohler 17 Feb 17:13
tif vs TIF Patrick Shanahan 17 Feb 19:43
  tif vs TIF Chris Mohler 17 Feb 19:58
Jeremy Nell
2011-02-17 17:07:47 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

tif vs TIF

Is there a difference between "tif" and "TIF" (and even "tiff")?

I just saved the same file as both "tif" and "TIF" and thought that, if they were the same format, GIMP would correct the case and see them as the same file, but this didn't happen (it didn't overwrite the file).

Why is this, and what is the difference?

Chris Mohler
2011-02-17 17:13:52 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

tif vs TIF

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote:

Is there a difference between "tif" and "TIF" (and even "tiff")?

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

I just saved the same file as both "tif" and "TIF" and thought that, if they were the same format, GIMP would correct the case and see them as the same file, but this didn't happen (it didn't overwrite the file).

You have saved two TIFF files with differing names.

Chris

Patrick Shanahan
2011-02-17 19:43:29 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

tif vs TIF

* Jeremy Nell [02-17-11 12:30]:

Differing names because of lowercase and uppercase variation?

Ultimately, it doesn't matter, then?

On 17/02/2011 19:13, Chris Mohler wrote:

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote:

Is there a difference between "tif" and "TIF" (and even "tiff")?

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

I just saved the same file as both "tif" and "TIF" and thought that, if they were the same format, GIMP would correct the case and see them as the same file, but this didn't happen (it didn't overwrite the file).

You have saved two TIFF files with differing names.

You must be using windows which is not case sensitive but linux where gimp originated is. picture.tif \= Picture.TIF \= Picture.tif

And linux discerns file type by an internal file flag rather than the extension so *.tiff, *.tif, *.TIF, and *.jpg *could* all be the same png file type :^)

Chris Mohler
2011-02-17 19:58:11 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

tif vs TIF

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

You must be using windows which is not case sensitive but linux where gimp originated is.  picture.tif \= Picture.TIF \= Picture.tif

And linux discerns file type by an internal file flag rather than the extension so *.tiff, *.tif, *.TIF, and *.jpg *could* all be the same png file type :^)

In Windows (XP), when saving "foo.tif" then "foo.TIF" in the same directory the original "foo.tif" is replaced by "foo.TIF".

In Linux, the same procedure leaves both files side by side. So I'm guessing OP is on a non-Windows platform ;)

Chris