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2004.05.15 21:09 "Re: TIFFWriteScanline endian swapping issue", by Joris Van Damme
Bob wrote: > Libtiff is used successfully by lots of software so any formatting > errors are likely to be in the buffer that you pass to libtiff. While you are of course correct, I can't help feeling this sounds like Sam speaking... ;-) R Seidl wrote: > Also tried using "l" and "b" (little and big endian) parameters to the open > call Bob wrote: > Maybe it is some sort of little-endian byte stream No, it's got nothing to do with endianness. From this line: TIFFSetField(tif,TIFFTAG_BITSPERSAMPLE, (uint16)8); it's clear that we're talking about bytes, not words or anything. Endianness is a multi-byte issue. It is, instead, windows tradition B-G-R needing to be byteswapped to unix tradition R-G-B. Joris Van Damme info@awaresystems.be http://www.awaresystems.be Download your free TIFF tag viewer for windows here: http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/astifftagviewer.html