From 7c5d900f0e6d5a440afc8f046f3d9b79ee261130 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rivers <rivers@dc6c5ff5-0b8b-c028-a01f-ffb33f00fc8b>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:22:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Notes about changed to NDFileTIFF plugin, added SampleFormat
 TIFF tag

git-svn-id: https://subversion.xor.aps.anl.gov/synApps/areaDetector/trunk@14623 dc6c5ff5-0b8b-c028-a01f-ffb33f00fc8b
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 documentation/areaDetectorReleaseNotes.html | 29 ++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/documentation/areaDetectorReleaseNotes.html b/documentation/areaDetectorReleaseNotes.html
index 168cec9..311eef2 100755
--- a/documentation/areaDetectorReleaseNotes.html
+++ b/documentation/areaDetectorReleaseNotes.html
@@ -74,12 +74,29 @@
     </li>
     <li>Plugins
       <ul>
-        <li>NDPluginFile. Added 2 new records, WriteStatus and WriteMessage to display status
-          of file writing operations. Write status is a bi record with values "WriteOK" (0)
-          and "WriteError" (1). WriteMessage is a waveform record containing a string with
-          any error messages. The NDFilePlugin base class now updates these records for each
-          file open or file write operation. All of the file plugin medm screens have been
-          updated to display these new PVs.</li>
+        <li>NDPluginFile.
+          <ul>
+            <li>Added 2 new records, WriteStatus and WriteMessage to display status of file writing
+              operations. Write status is a bi record with values "WriteOK" (0) and "WriteError"
+              (1). WriteMessage is a waveform record containing a string with any error messages.
+              The NDFilePlugin base class now updates these records for each file open or file
+              write operation. All of the file plugin medm screens have been updated to display
+              these new PVs.</li>
+          </ul>
+        </li>
+        <li>NDFileTIFF.
+          <ul>
+            <li>Previously TIFF files were being written without the SampleFormat TIFF tag. This
+              meant that the file Previously TIFF files were being written without the SampleFormat
+              TIFF tag. This meant that the file did not distinguish between signed and unsigned
+              integers, and floating point TIFF files were not supported. Some readers, notably
+              the Python Imaging Library (PIL), do not recognize 32-bit TIFF files unless they
+              contain the SampleFormat tag.</li>
+            <li>Added the SampleFormat TIFF tag, and added support for 32-bit and 64-bit floating
+              point arrays. 2, Float64). IDL can read TIFF files with all of these data types.
+              ImageJ can read all except Float64. PIL can read all except Int8, UInt32, and Float64.</li>
+          </ul>
+        </li>
         <li>NDFileNexus.
           <ul>
             <li>Fixed a bug which caused the plugin to crash with the example iocSimDetector/NexusTemplate.xml