TIFFDUMP
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: October 23, 2005
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NAME
tiffdump - print verbatim information about
TIFF
files
SYNOPSIS
tiffdump
[
options
]
name ...
DESCRIPTION
tiffdump
displays directory information from files created according
to the Tag Image File Format, Revision 6.0.
The header of each
TIFF
file (magic number, version, and first directory offset)
is displayed, followed by the tag contents of each directory in the file.
For each tag, the name, data type, count, and value(s) is displayed.
When the symbolic name for a tag or data type is known, the symbolic
name is displayed followed by it's numeric (decimal) value.
Tag values are displayed enclosed in ``<>'' characters immediately
preceded by the value of the count field.
For example, an
ImageWidth
tag might be displayed as ``ImageWidth (256) SHORT (3) 1<800>''.
tiffdump
is particularly useful for investigating the contents of
TIFF
files that
libtiff
does not understand.
OPTIONS
- -h
-
Force numeric data to be printed in hexadecimal rather than the
default decimal.
- -m items
-
Change the number of indirect data items that are printed. By default, this
will be 24.
- -o offset
-
Dump the contents of the
IFD
at the a particular file offset.
The file offset may be specified using the usual C-style syntax;
i.e. a leading ``0x'' for hexadecimal and a leading ``0'' for octal.
SEE ALSO
tiffinfo(1),
libtiff(3TIFF)
Libtiff library home page:
http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/