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This plug-in reads and writes the Maya IFF format.  Only RGB format 
files are supported, with an optional alpha channel.  You may save out a
grayscale image, but you will in fact be writing out an RGB image  with
the luminance written to each channel.

This plug-in will also read in zbuffer data from Maya IFF files.  Maya
IFF  files store the zbuffer information as 32 bit data.  This plug-in
normalizes that  data down into an 8 bit range and stores it in an extra
channel.  You WILL lose  precision. So, it is only possible to read in
zbuffer data.  It is NOT stored  out again, except as an alpha channel
if you don't already have one.

IMPORTANT:  The file reader type determination is done by file
extension.   Because of this, the Maya IFF plug-in is not compatible
with the Amiga IFF  plug-in.  They both attempt to use the .iff
extension.

To install this plug-in, copy it into the plug-ins/Format directory
under where your Adobe product is installed.  You must also rename the 
"Amiga IFF.8bi" (Photoshop 5) or "aiff8b.8bi" (Photoshop 4) plug-in so
that  it is disabled (e.g. rename it to "Amiga IFF.8bi.disabled").  On
the Macintosh, you will need to move the Amiga IFF plug-in from the 
plug-ins directory to stop Photoshop from finding it.

