[Suggestion] Ability to export to ZIPed TIFF SOLVED

[Jensen Head]

Currently, when choosing the TIFF compression settings (the "Image Saving Options" window) in the "Compression" item, only the following options can be selected:

• No Compression
• LZW (Lempel-Ziv & Welch)
• JPEG DCT
• Macintosh PackBits RLE
• Deflate compression

Please add the ability to save images to TIFF using ZIP compression.
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[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]

Hello,

Thank you for your suggestion.

I made a Feature Request ticket in our internal ticket system:

#5816: FR: Ability to export to ZIP-ed TIFF

Hopefully, our developers will fulfill your request soon.

Regards.

[Jensen Head]

#5816: FR: Ability to export to ZIP-ed TIFF

No changes yet, unfortunately.

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]

I am afraid so.

EDIT: I was wrong:

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[Jensen Head]

• No Compression
• (…)
• Deflate compression

I was wrong

No, I was wrong:

an algorithm producing Deflate files was widely thought to be implementable in a manner not covered by patents. This led to its widespread use. For example, in (…) the ZIP file format for which Katz originally designed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflate

So, this isn't an "Enhancement" question, but a "UX & Usability" one.
Perhaps you should rename "Deflate compression" to "Deflate (ZIP)"?

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Jensen Head

I appreciate the attention to detail, but I cannot say this will be changing.
While "zip" is indeed "Technically Correct" (The best kind of correct), "Compression" is not inaccurate on its own. Zip is a type of compression and so a change here is unnecessary. If anything, this terminology is more open ended and less prone to misunderstandings for the vast majority of users - as Compression is becoming a more well known term over time.

With the best will in the world, The Dev team is extremely busy, and has more important things to put their time towards.

Kind regards,