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2008.02.06 20:03 "Bug in tif_print.c for TIFFTAG_REFERENCEBLACKWHITE", by Edward Lam
Hi,
I've found a bug in tiffinfo when used to display images RGBA images. I
would have checked the bug database at,
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/buglist.cgi?product=libtiff
but it seems to be down at the moment. I've confirmed that the problem
exists in CVS HEAD (since at least 3.7.0).
I have the following image and used tiffinfo on it:
$ ./tiffinfo c:/cygwin/tmp/foo.tiff
TIFF Directory at offset 0x92c3c (601148)
Image Width: 512 Image Length: 512
Resolution: 1, 1 (unitless)
Position: 0, 0
Bits/Sample: 32
Sample Format: IEEE floating point
Compression Scheme: LZW
Photometric Interpretation: RGB color
Extra Samples: 1<assoc-alpha>
Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs
Samples/Pixel: 4
Rows/Strip: 2
Planar Configuration: single image plane
DateTime: 2008:02:06 13:29:39
Reference Black/White:
0: 0 1
1: 0 1
2: 0 1
3: 2.9389e-039 1.10203e-038
Notice that for the Reference Black/White entry, there's garbage printed
out in the last pair. According to page 87 of the TIFF6.pdf, the
ReferenceBlackWhite tag contains 6 rationals (or 3 pairs). tiffinfo
however is display 4 pairs.
I tracked this down to tif_print.c where we have code like this:
case TIFFTAG_REFERENCEBLACKWHITE:
{
uint16 i;
fprintf(fd, " Reference Black/White:\n");
for (i = 0; i < td->td_samplesperpixel; i++)
fprintf(fd, " %2d: %5g %5g\n", i,
((float *)raw_data)[2*i+0],
((float *)raw_data)[2*i+1]);
return 1;
}
Notice that i loops from 0 to td_samplesperpixel when I think it should
be looping from 0 to *3* instead. We similarly hardcode this constant
for this tag in other places.
One might think that perhaps the SamplesPerPixel tag should be 3 for
RGBA images but I think the TIFF 6 spec clearly says that
SamplesPerPixel *includes* ExtraSamples in the description for
ExtraSamples (page ) as well as the note on it on page 27.
Thanks,
-Edward