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.if n .po 0

.TH TIFFDUMP 1 "October 23, 2005" "libtiff"

.SH NAME

tiffdump \- print verbatim information about

.SM TIFF

files

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B tiffdump

[

.I options

]

.I "name \&..."

.SH DESCRIPTION

.I tiffdump

displays directory information from files created according

to the Tag Image File Format, Revision 6.0.

The header of each

.SM 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

.I ImageWidth

tag might be displayed as ``ImageWidth (256) SHORT (3) 1<800>''.

.PP

.I tiffdump

is particularly useful for investigating the contents of

.SM TIFF

files that

.I libtiff

does not understand.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP

.B \-h

Force numeric data to be printed in hexadecimal rather than the

default decimal.

.TP

.BI \-m " items"

Change the number of indirect data items that are printed. By default, this

will be 24.

.TP

.BI \-o " offset"

Dump the contents of the 

.SM 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.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR tiffinfo (1),

.BR libtiff (3TIFF)

.PP

Libtiff library home page:

.BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/