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by LukeBMM 1688 days ago
AKA: Thousands of Image File Formats.

I still remember trying to explain to a previous employer why I needed Debabelizer to create appropriately-striped TIFFs in addition to Photoshop. In hindsight, the me of today would have said then, "I just need it to do this job, which will make you far more money than it costs to buy a single license." The me of then wasn't quite as savvy.

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I regularly outline how much engineering time could be saved with some minor capital expenses. They choose the longer and more expensive route every time.
Oh, my. DeBabelizer was an extremely powerful and extremely eccentric tool. Weird, weird, weird. But powerful.