Compare RIFF and TIFF file formats

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TIFF	RIFF
TIFF format is developed by Aldus Corporation	RIFF format is jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft
It is totally new format	It is not new format it just provides wrapper around existing file formats to provide platform independence
It stores only bitmap data	It can store other data also
TIFF includes number of compression scheme that allows developers to choose the best space or time trade-off for their application	It includes Microsoft proprietary compression algorithms
Suitable for pre-press application	Not suitable for pre-press application
Here tags are used for random access	Here list chunks are used for random access.For example “idxl” list chunk of AVI RIFF file format is used for random access
Information is stored in Image file directory	Information is stored in chunks

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