src/tiff/man/tiffdump.1

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