2008.02.18 03:15 "Re: [Tiff] TIFFRead errors on faxes", by Frank Warmerdam

Once again, I have some TIFF files that cannot be read. These TIFFs have come in through the Faxman faxing software, and when I try to read them through the 3.9.0 beta library, Page 2 reports a "Read error on line xxx: Expected bbb, got ccc" error. Brava Reader and Autovue can view these images ok.

Sample tiff files available from http://midimick.com/temp/fax1.tif and http://midimick.com/temp/fax2.tif

Mick,

I just looked at fax1.tif. The file is 68445 bytes in length. The first directory (page) looks fine. The second is:

Directory 1: offset 68247 (0x10a97) next 0 (0)
SubFileType (254) LONG (4) 1<0>
ImageWidth (256) SHORT (3) 1<1728>
ImageLength (257) SHORT (3) 1<2287>
BitsPerSample (258) SHORT (3) 1<1>
Compression (259) SHORT (3) 1<3>
Photometric (262) SHORT (3) 1<0>
FillOrder (266) SHORT (3) 1<2>
StripOffsets (273) LONG (4) 1<30797>
SamplesPerPixel (277) SHORT (3) 1<1>
RowsPerStrip (278) SHORT (3) 1<2287>
StripByteCounts (279) LONG (4) 1<68197>
XResolution (282) RATIONAL (5) 1<200>
YResolution (283) RATIONAL (5) 1<192>
Group3Options (292) LONG (4) 1<4>
ResolutionUnit (296) SHORT (3) 1<2>
Software (305) ASCII (2) 34<ImageMan by Data Techniq ...>

Note that the StripOffsets is 30767 and the strip size is 68197. This would only be reasonable if the file was at least 68187+30767 bytes in length, but in fact it is much shorter than that.

My conclusion is that the file is corrupt and was incorrectly constructed.

I suspect other packages are more forgiving of this problem and successfully decode the second page from the available data while it seems that libtiff is promptly giving up on the second page due to the io error.

I observe that tiff2rgba does handle the first page just fine.

BTW, packages that only operate on the first page will likely be fine.

Best regards,
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