TIFFDUMP(1)                                                        TIFFDUMP(1)



NAME
       tiffdump - print verbatim information about TIFF files

SYNOPSIS
       tiffdump [ options ] name ...

DESCRIPTION
       tiffdump displays directory information from files created according to
       the Tag Image File Format, Revision 6.0.  The header of each TIFF file
       (magic number, version, and first directory offset) is displayed,
       followed by the tag contents of each directory in the file.  For each
       tag, the name, data type, count, and value(s) is displayed.  When the
       symbolic name for a tag or data type is known, the symbolic name is
       displayed followed by it's numeric (decimal) value.  Tag values are
       displayed enclosed in ``<>'' characters immediately preceded by the
       value of the count field.  For example, an ImageWidth tag might be
       displayed as ``ImageWidth (256) SHORT (3) 1<800>''.

       tiffdump is particularly useful for investigating the contents of TIFF
       files that libtiff does not understand.

OPTIONS
       -h     Force numeric data to be printed in hexadecimal rather than the
              default decimal.

       -m items
              Change the number of indirect data items that are printed. By
              default, this will be 24.

       -o offset
              Dump the contents of the IFD at the a particular file offset.
              The file offset may be specified using the usual C-style syntax;
              i.e. a leading ``0x'' for hexadecimal and a leading ``0'' for
              octal.

SEE ALSO
       tiffinfo(1), libtiff(3TIFF)

       Libtiff library home page: http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/



libtiff                        October 23, 2005                    TIFFDUMP(1)
