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OCR: TIFF SO Appentices Appendix Tag Structure Rationale A file fomat is defined by both form (structure] and content. The content of TIFF consisis of F definitions of idividual fields It is therefore the content that are ultimately interested in The structire merely tells Us how find the fielris. vet the struchire terious consideration a nurnber of reasons thal are not all obvious glance. Since the strucure described hereln departs significanuy frors several other appxroaches it may be lo discuss the rationale behind it The simplest most straighuorward structure far somcthing lika an image fle ispositional Fonnat. Ir a positional scheme, the location of the data defines whal the data imcans For cxample, the ficld for numbet of rows' might begin at byle offset DE 101 imagr file. This approach i ...