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Uwe

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Posted - Jun 24 2013 :  19:21:09  Show Profile  Reply
Hi guys

As far as I know, Adobe holds patents for both file formats. Do you have any idea if I can safely use ImageEN in a commercial application to save images as PSD or (LZW compressed?) TIF without patent infringement?

Thanks
Uwe

w2m

USA
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Posted - Jun 25 2013 :  08:06:44  Show Profile  Reply
TIFF offers the option of using LZW compression, a lossless data-compression technique for reducing a file's size. Until 2004, use of this option was limited because the LZW technique was under several patents. However, these patents have expired.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format

I could not find anything on PDF.

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