src/tiff/man/tiffsplit.1

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