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25.if n .po 0
26.TH TIFFDUMP 1 "October 23, 2005" "libtiff"
27.SH NAME
28tiffdump \- print verbatim information about
29.SM TIFF
30files
31.SH SYNOPSIS
32.B tiffdump
33[
34.I options
35]
36.I "name \&..."
37.SH DESCRIPTION
38.I tiffdump
39displays directory information from files created according
40to the Tag Image File Format, Revision 6.0.
41The header of each
42.SM TIFF
43file (magic number, version, and first directory offset)
44is displayed, followed by the tag contents of each directory in the file.
45For each tag, the name, data type, count, and value(s) is displayed.
46When the symbolic name for a tag or data type is known, the symbolic
47name is displayed followed by it's numeric (decimal) value.
48Tag values are displayed enclosed in ``<>'' characters immediately
49preceded by the value of the count field.
50For example, an
51.I ImageWidth
52tag might be displayed as ``ImageWidth (256) SHORT (3) 1<800>''.
53.PP
54.I tiffdump
55is particularly useful for investigating the contents of
56.SM TIFF
57files that
58.I libtiff
59does not understand.
60.SH OPTIONS
61.TP
62.B \-h
63Force numeric data to be printed in hexadecimal rather than the
64default decimal.
65.TP
66.B \-m " items"
67Change the number of indirect data items that are printed. By default, this
68will be 24.
69.TP
70.B \-o " offset"
71Dump the contents of the
72.SM IFD
73at the a particular file offset.
74The file offset may be specified using the usual C-style syntax;
75i.e. a leading ``0x'' for hexadecimal and a leading ``0'' for octal.
76.SH "SEE ALSO"
77.BR tiffinfo (1),
78.BR libtiff (3TIFF)
79.PP
80Libtiff library home page:
81.BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/