VFZ/PFZ Image File Format

VFZ File format is developed by Celartem Technology and it have been supported by PixelLive SDK (formerly called VFZSDK) series.

VFZ Decoder Notes

PixelLive SDK supports all VFZ/PFZ format variations (2.0, 2.2, 2.4).
For accessing PFZ files, see Open the Image Files that Requires Authentication.
For quality control of VFZ/PFZ images, you can use VFZQualityParam structure.

VFZ Specific Metadata Support

VFZ/PFZ metadata is mapped to appropriate TIFF tags and they are also preserved in "PixelLive" directory. They are listed below:

VFZ Metadata	Data Path	Type	TIFF tag (mapped)
TITLE	PixelLive/TITLE	String	DocumentName(269)
AUTHOR	PixelLive/AUTHOR	String	Artist(315)
DATE	PixelLive/DATE	String	n/a
GENRE	PixelLive/GENRE	String	n/a
COPYRIGHT	PixelLive/COPYRIGHT	String	Copyright(33432)
COMMENTS	PixelLive/COMMENTS	String	n/a
GUID	PixelLive/GUID	GUID	Exif IFD Pointer/UniqueImageID

The data path points the location where the VFZ/PFZ native information stores. To access these data, Metadata other than TIFF Tags. Some part of them are also mapped to corresponding TIFF tags and "TIFF tag (mapped)" shows them. They are easily accessed by TIFF6 functions. For more information, see TIFF Tags in String and in Number.

VFZ Encoder Notes

PixelLive SDK only supports VFZ 2.4 (Internal Version 6) for exporting. The VFZ 2.4 format supports the following features:

• Color Space
  • RGB (8bit)
  • CMYK (8bit)
  • Grayscale (1bit, 8bit, 16bit)
  • RGBA (8bit)

• Resolution
  Maximum 65280x65280. (For the restrictions by memory or storage limit, see Overcoming Memory Restrictions)

• Quality Levels
  0 (Lowest Quality) to 5 (Highest Quality).

• Miscellaneous
  • TIFF compatible metadata support
  • UTF-8 descriptions.

PFZ Files

PFZ Files (PixelLive format protected by PixelSafe technology) requires you to do additional operations to import/export them. For importing PFZ files, see Using CredentialProvider. For exporting PFZ files, see Exporting PFZ Files.

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