[Digikam-devel] tiff image: what does this mean?

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> a stripped tiff imaged is a tiff image divided in stripes...
> 
> (not exactly the same meaning than in 'a stripped executable': a file
> without debug symbols)
> 
> now the real question: why doesn't digikam support non-stripped images?

because writing this support is not trivial, noone of us is intimate with the 
TIFF format - remember we cannot use the topmost convenience layer of libtiff 
as we load 16 bit.
The TIFF format offers a lot of ways to create valid TIFFs differing 
substantially from the "usual TIFF" which we support and which covers >90% of 
cases.