On 9/17/10, Michael Grosberg wrote:
Version 0.48.0 won't export tiff file format. This format will accept both vector and bitmap objects.
Idon't think that's true. The TIFF is extensible and has many unofficial extensions, each supported by different programs. Microsoft embeds multi-page faxes in TIFF files while Adobe embeds entire PSD layer structures and various GIS applications embed geographic data. But the baseline TIFF format doesn't support any of these features - perhaps a single clipping path but that's about it for vector shapes.
That never stopped GIMP team from implementing clipping paths export to TIFF and Scribus team -- from implementing support for both clippings paths and blending modes :)
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org