1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> 2<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Manpage of TIFFDUMP</TITLE> 3</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR=WHITE><FONT FACE="helvetica, sans, arial"> 4<H1>TIFFDUMP</H1> 5Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: October 15, 1995<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A> 6<BR><A HREF="index.html">Return to Main Contents</A> 7<HR> 8 9<A NAME="lbAB"> </A> 10<H2>NAME</H2> 11 12tiffdump - print verbatim information about 13<FONT SIZE="-1">TIFF</FONT> 14files 15<A NAME="lbAC"> </A> 16<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2> 17 18<B>tiffdump</B> 19 20[ 21<I>options</I> 22 23] 24<I>name ...</I> 25 26<A NAME="lbAD"> </A> 27<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2> 28 29<I>tiffdump</I> 30 31displays directory information from files created according 32to the Tag Image File Format, Revision 6.0. 33The header of each 34<FONT SIZE="-1">TIFF</FONT> 35file (magic number, version, and first directory offset) 36is displayed, followed by the tag contents of each directory in the file. 37For each tag, the name, datatype, count, and value(s) is displayed. 38When the symbolic name for a tag or datatype is known, the symbolic 39name is displayed followed by it's numeric (decimal) value. 40Tag values are displayed enclosed in ``<>'' characters immediately 41preceded by the value of the count field. 42For example, an 43<I>ImageWidth</I> 44 45tag might be displayed as ``ImageWidth (256) SHORT (3) 1<800>''. 46<P> 47 48<I>tiffdump</I> 49 50is particularly useful for investigating the contents of 51<FONT SIZE="-1">TIFF</FONT> 52files that 53<I>libtiff</I> 54 55does not understand. 56<A NAME="lbAE"> </A> 57<H2>OPTIONS</H2> 58 59<DL COMPACT> 60<DT><B>-h</B> 61 62<DD> 63Force numeric data to be printed in hexadecimal rather than the 64default decimal. 65<DT><B>-o</B> 66 67<DD> 68Dump the contents of the 69<FONT SIZE="-1">IFD</FONT> 70at the a particular file offset. 71The file offset may be specified using the usual C-style syntax; 72i.e. a leading ``0x'' for hexadecimal and a leading ``0'' for octal. 73</DL> 74<A NAME="lbAF"> </A> 75<H2>SEE ALSO</H2> 76 77<I><A HREF="tiffinfo+1.html">tiffinfo</A></I>(1), 78 79<I><A HREF="libtiff+3">libtiff</A></I>(3) 80 81 82<HR> 83<A NAME="index"> </A><H2>Index</H2> 84<DL> 85<DT><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD> 86<DT><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD> 87<DT><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD> 88<DT><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD> 89<DT><A HREF="#lbAF">SEE ALSO</A><DD> 90</DL> 91<HR> 92This document was created by 93<A HREF="index.html">man2html</A>, 94using the manual pages.<BR> 95Time: 01:31:48 GMT, November 23, 1999 96</BODY> 97</HTML> 98