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I've got the file from Stefan.
It's not a libtiff bug, it's a buggy file.
In it there is simple a wrong 8 byte to short StripByteCount
( may be at computing the programm has forgotten the 8 bytes of
the file header ). The "strip loader" of libtiff fails in line -1
(before decoding the first line ), if it cannot load the referenced size. 

The question is, should libtiff be able to handle such a buggy file, 
or not ? The old question. What of the nice ideas of programmers 
should be tolerated, what not.

Klaus


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	LibTiff Mailing List TIFF and LibTiff Mailing List Archive November 2000 Previous Thread Next Thread Previous by Thread Next by Thread Previous by Date Next by Date Contact The TIFF Mailing List Homepage This list is run by Frank Warmerdam Archive maintained by AWare Systems	Thread 2000.11.30 06:27 "Problem with CCITT Group 4 file", by Stefan Schulz 2000.11.30 12:52 "Re: Problem with CCITT Group 4 file", by Frank D Cringle 2000.11.30 21:23 "Re: Problem with CCITT Group 4 file", by Peter Skarpetis 2000.12.01 10:07 "Re: Problem with CCITT Group 4 file", by Klaus Bartz 2000.12.01 12:40 "Re: Problem with CCITT Group 4 file", by Stefan Schulz 2000.12.01 10:07 "Re: Problem with CCITT Group 4 file", by Klaus Bartz I've got the file from Stefan. It's not a libtiff bug, it's a buggy file. In it there is simple a wrong 8 byte to short StripByteCount ( may be at computing the programm has forgotten the 8 bytes of the file header ). The "strip loader" of libtiff fails in line -1 (before decoding the first line ), if it cannot load the referenced size. The question is, should libtiff be able to handle such a buggy file, or not ? The old question. What of the nice ideas of programmers should be tolerated, what not. Klaus

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