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  <h1>LibTIFF - TIFF Library and Utilities</h1>
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      <th>Home Page</th>
      <td><a href="http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/" title="Home of the LibTIFF software">http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/</a></td>
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      <th>Home Page Mirror</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="v3.8.2.html">v3.8.2</a></td>
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      <th>Latest Development Release</th>
      <td><a href="v3.8.2.html">v3.8.2</a></td>
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      <th>Master Download Site</th>
      <td><a href="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff">ftp.remotesensing.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</td>
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      <th>Mirror Download Site</th>
      <td><a href="http://libtiff.maptools.org/dl/">http://libtiff.maptools.org/dl/</a></td>
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      <th>Windows Binaries</th>
      <td><a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libtiff.htm">GnuWin32 Project</a></td>
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      <th>Mailing List</th>
      <td><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</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:[email protected]:/cvs/maptools/cvsroot<br>
	cvs login</tt><br>
	(use empty password)<br>
	<tt>cvs checkout -r branch-3-9 libtiff<br></tt>
	to get stable libtiff branch, or<br>
	<tt>cvs checkout libtiff</tt><br>
	to get bleeding edge development version of libtiff from CVS HEAD.</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, 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.  This software can also be used on older 16-bit systems
    though it may require some effort and you may need to leave out some of
    the compression support.
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    The software was originally authored and maintained by Sam Leffler.
    While he keeps a fatherly eye on the mailing list, he is no longer
    responsible for day to day maintenance.
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    Questions should be sent to the TIFF mailing list:
    <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</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 responsible for putting up this site and putting together
    versions &gt;= 3.5.1 are
    <a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">Frank Warmerdam</a>,
    <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Andrey Kiselev</a> and Mike Welles.
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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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  <p>
    <b>News</b>: We are about to start work on <a href="BigTIFFProposal.html">BigTIFF support in LibTiff</a>.
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    Last updated  $Date: 2007-04-30 11:27:48 $.
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