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<h1>LibTIFF - TIFF Library and Utilities</h1>
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<th>Home Page #1</th>
<td><a href="http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/" title="Home of the LibTIFF software">http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</a></td>
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<th>Home Page #2</th>
<td><a href="http://libtiff.maptools.org/" title="Mirror of the LibTIFF software">http://libtiff.maptools.org/</a></td>
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<th>Latest Stable Release</th>
<td><a href="v4.0.9.html">v4.0.9</a></td>
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<th>Master Download Site</th>
<td><a href="ftp://download.osgeo.org/libtiff">download.osgeo.org</a>, directory libtiff</td>
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<th>Mailing List</th>
<td><a href="mailto:tiff@lists.maptools.org">tiff@lists.maptools.org</a>,
<a href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff/">Subscription</a>,
<a href="http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/tml.html">Archive</a>.
Please, read the <a href="http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/faq.html">TIFF FAQ</a>
before asking questions.</td>
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<th>Anonymous CVS</th>
<td><tt>export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvsanon@cvs.maptools.org:/cvs/maptools/cvsroot<br>
cvs login</tt><br>
(use empty password)<br>
<tt>cvs checkout libtiff<br></tt>
to get the stable libtiff code or<br>
<tt>cvs checkout -r branch-3-9 libtiff</tt><br>
to get the previous stable branch supporting the 3.9.X release series.</td>
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This software provides support for the <i>Tag Image File Format</i> (TIFF),
a widely used format for storing image data. The latest version of
the TIFF specification is <a href="document.html">available on-line</a>
in several different formats.
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Included in this software distribution is a library, libtiff, for
reading and writing TIFF, a small collection of tools for doing
simple manipulations of TIFF images, and documentation on the
library and tools. Libtiff is a portable software, it was built
and tested on various systems: UNIX flavors (Linux, BSD, Solaris,
MacOS X), Windows, and OpenVMS. It should be possible to port
libtiff and additional tools on other OSes.
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The library, along with associated tool programs, should handle most of
your needs for reading and writing TIFF images on 32- and 64-bit
machines.
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The software was originally authored and maintained by Sam Leffler
but has been maintained by a cast of others since 1999.
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Questions should be sent to the TIFF mailing list:
<a href="mailto:tiff@lists.maptools.org">tiff@lists.maptools.org</a>, with
a subscription interface at
<a href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff">http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff</a>.
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The persons currently actively maintaining and releasing libtiff
are <a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com">Even Rouault</a>
and <a href="mailto:bfriesen@GraphicsMagick.org">Bob Friesenhahn</a>.
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<p>Significant maintainers in the past (since the 3.5.1 release) are
<a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">Frank Warmerdam</a>,
<a href="mailto:dron@ak4719.spb.edu">Andrey Kiselev</a>,
Joris Van Damme, and Lee Howard.
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The following sections are included in this documentation:
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<li><a href="support.html">TIFF 6.0 specification coverage</a></li>
<li><a href="libtiff.html">Using the TIFF Library</a></li>
<li><a href="internals.html">Modifying the TIFF Library</a>
and <a href="addingtags.html">Adding New Tags</a></li>
<li><a href="tools.html">TIFF tools overview</a></li>
<li><a href="contrib.html">Contributed software</a></li>
<li><a href="document.html">TIFF documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="build.html">Building the software distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="bugs.html">Bugs, Bugzilla, and the TIFF mailing list</a></li>
<li><a href="images.html">Test images</a></li>
<li><a href="misc.html">Acknowledgements and copyright issues</a></li>
<li><a href="man/index.html">Man Pages</a></li>
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<b>BigTIFF News</b>
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<li><a href="BigTIFFProposal.html">BigTIFF project proposal</a> (work is completed!)</li>
<li><a href="bigtiffpr.html">Press release: Currently extending LibTiff</a> (work is completed!)</li>
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Last updated $Date: 2017-11-07 02:00:06 $.
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