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2006.12.26 10:30 "Re: removing tiff tag in-place", by Andrey Kiselev
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:54:20PM -0900, Gennady Khokhorin wrote: > I have an empty tags which want to remove from tif wout copying > process. I tried TIFFSetField(tif, TIFFTAG_DOCUMENTNAME, ""); but tag > still seats in the file. > Is it possible to drop an empty ascii tags? Gennady, I am afraid there is no a clean way to purge empty tags. I don't want to recommend you the way with removing old directory using TIFFUnlinkDirectory() because it involves rewriting the whole data chunk including strip/tile arrays. You can add an entry to our Bugzilla requesting the function for field dropping. Best regards, Andrey -- Andrey V. Kiselev ICQ# 26871517