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  26 .TH TIFFSPLIT 1 "September 20, 2005" "libtiff"
  27 .SH NAME
  28 tiffsplit \- split a multi-image
  29 .SM TIFF
  30 into single-image
  31 .SM TIFF
  32 files
  33 .SH SYNOPSIS
  34 .B tiffsplit
  35 .I src.tif
  36 [
  37 .I prefix
  38 ]
  39 .SH DESCRIPTION
  40 .I tiffsplit
  41 takes a multi-directory (page)
  42 .SM TIFF
  43 file and creates one or more single-directory (page)
  44 .SM TIFF
  45 files from it.
  46 The output files are given names created by concatenating
  47 a prefix, a lexically ordered
  48 suffix in the range [\fIaaa\fP-\fIzzz\fP], the suffix
  49 .I .tif
  50 (e.g.
  51 .IR xaaa.tif ,
  52 .IR xaab.tif ,
  53 \...
  54 .IR xzzz.tif ).
  55 If a prefix is not specified on the command line,
  56 the default prefix of
  57 .I x
  58 is used.
  59 .SH OPTIONS
  60 None.
  61 .SH BUGS
  62 Only a select set of ``known tags'' is copied when splitting.
  63 .SH "SEE ALSO"
  64 .BR tiffcp (1),
  65 .BR tiffinfo (1),
  66 .BR libtiff (3TIFF)
  67 .PP
  68 Libtiff library home page:
  69 .BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/