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14  <h1>LibTIFF - TIFF Library and Utilities</h1>
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18      <th>Home Page</th>
19      <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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22      <th>Home Page Mirror</th>
23      <td><a href="http://libtiff.maptools.org/" title="Mirror of the LibTIFF software">http://libtiff.maptools.org/</a></td>
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26      <th>Latest Stable Release</th>
27      <td><a href="v3.9.0.html">v3.9.0</a></td>
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30      <th>Latest Development Release</th>
31      <td><a href="v4.0.0.html">v4.0.0beta4</a></td>
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34      <th>Master Download Site</th>
35      <td><a href="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff">ftp.remotesensing.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</td>
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38      <th>Mirror Download Site</th>
39      <td><a href="http://libtiff.maptools.org/dl/">http://libtiff.maptools.org/dl/</a></td>
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42      <th>Windows Binaries</th>
43      <td><a href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libtiff.htm">GnuWin32 Project</a></td>
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46      <th>Mailing List</th>
47      <td><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>,
48        <a href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff/">Subscription</a>,
49        <a href="http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/tml.html">Archive</a>.
50        Please, read the <a href="http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/faq.html">TIFF FAQ</a>
51        before asking questions.</td>
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54      <th>Anonymous CVS</th>
55      <td><tt>export CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/maptools/cvsroot<br>
56	cvs login</tt><br>
57	(use empty password)<br>
58	<tt>cvs checkout -r branch-3-9 libtiff<br></tt>
59	to get stable libtiff branch, or<br>
60	<tt>cvs checkout libtiff</tt><br>
61	to get bleeding edge development version of libtiff from CVS HEAD.</td>
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65  <p>
66    This software provides support for the <i>Tag Image File Format</i> (TIFF),
67    a widely used format for storing image data.  The latest version of
68    the TIFF specification is <a href="document.html">available on-line</a>
69    in several different formats.
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71  <p>
72    Included in this software distribution is a library, libtiff, for reading
73    and writing TIFF, a small collection of tools for doing simple
74    manipulations of TIFF images, and documentation on the
75    library and tools.  Libtiff is a portable software, it was built and
76    tested on various systems: UNIX flavors (Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS X),
77    Windows, OpenVMS.  It should be possible to port libtiff and additional
78    tools on other OSes.
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80  <p>
81    The library, along with associated tool programs, should handle most of
82    your needs for reading and writing TIFF images on 32- and 64-bit
83    machines.  This software can also be used on older 16-bit systems
84    though it may require some effort and you may need to leave out some of
85    the compression support.
86  </p>
87  <p>
88    The software was originally authored and maintained by Sam Leffler.
89    While he keeps a fatherly eye on the mailing list, he is no longer
90    responsible for day to day maintenance.
91  </p>
92  <p>
93    Questions should be sent to the TIFF mailing list:
94    <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>, with
95    a subscription interface at
96    <a href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff">http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff</a>.
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99    The persons responsible for putting up this site and putting together
100    versions &gt;= 3.5.1 are
101    <a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">Frank Warmerdam</a>,
102    <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Andrey Kiselev</a>, Bob Friesenhahn,
103Joris Van Damme and Lee Howard.
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105  <p>
106    The following sections are included in this documentation:
107  </p>
108  <ul>
109    <li><a href="support.html">TIFF 6.0 specification coverage</a></li>
110    <li><a href="libtiff.html">Using the TIFF Library</a></li>
111    <li><a href="internals.html">Modifying the TIFF Library</a>
112      and <a href="addingtags.html">Adding New Tags</a></li>
113    <li><a href="tools.html">TIFF tools overview</a></li>
114    <li><a href="contrib.html">Contributed software</a></li>
115    <li><a href="document.html">TIFF documentation</a></li>
116    <li><a href="build.html">Building the software distribution</a></li>
117    <li><a href="bugs.html">Bugs, Bugzilla, and the TIFF mailing list</a></li>
118    <li><a href="images.html">Test images</a></li>
119    <li><a href="misc.html">Acknowledgements and copyright issues</a></li>
120    <li><a href="man/index.html">Man Pages</a></li>
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122  <p>
123    <b>BigTIFF News</b>
124  </p>
125  <ul>
126    <li><a href="BigTIFFProposal.html">BigTIFF project proposal</a></li>
127    <li><a href="bigtiffpr.html">Press release: Currently extending LibTiff</a></li>
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130  <p>
131    Last updated  $Date: 2009-08-27 17:40:50 $.
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