{"id":385,"date":"2020-04-13T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tiffedit.com\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2020-04-13T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T19:07:10","slug":"big-endian-versus-little-endian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiffedit.com\/blog\/archives\/385","title":{"rendered":"Big Endian versus Little Endian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I have a question that has resurfaced as a concern when opening .<em>tif<\/em> files from our drawing database. For some of the .<em>tif<\/em> files I get a message telling me that the <em>Bid Endian<\/em> format is not supported, and asking if I want to convert the file to a supported format? I\u2019ve attached a screen shot of the message.<br><br>After investigating <em>Big Endian<\/em> versus <em>Little Endian<\/em> I couldn&#8217;t figure out why neither choice affects editing the drawing file when the message is telling me that the \u201cprogram cannot edit this file because it has an unsupported format [BidEndian].\u201d Yet, I <em>can<\/em> select NO, and still edit the file\u2026as we have been doing for over two years now. More to the point for the end users, we don&#8217;t have the authority to make changes to these files regarding file formats. My concern here is not about understanding file formats but about streamlining the file access process by removing this seemingly unnecessary \u201cError\u201d message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>You can use<br><br>Settings | User settings | Edit tab<br>Hide &#8220;Unsupported format&#8221; message = ON<\/p>\n\n\n<hr>\n<h3>Available programs:<\/h3>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><!-- wp:list --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced TIFF Editor Plus (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiffedit.com\/advtiffeditorplus_setup.exe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free download<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiffedit.com\/tiffeditor_plus.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">home page<\/a>);<\/li>\n<li>Advanced TIFF Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiffedit.com\/advtiffeditor_setup.exe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free download<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiffedit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">home page<\/a>);<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a question that has resurfaced as a concern when opening .tif files from our drawing database. 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