2012.11.24 00:09 "[Tiff] help writing thumbnails to TIFF file?", by Paul Heckbert

2012.11.25 13:01 "Re: [Tiff] help writing thumbnails to TIFF file?", by Edward Lam

On 23/11/2012 8:59 PM, Olivier Paquet wrote:

It's a hack that suited them fine. It's unlikely it'll ever suit you or anyone else. TIFFCheckpointDirectory is to LibTiff, like Stonehenge

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> Hey, we use that function for the same purpose and it still works

> great in libtiff 4 :) But I agree pretty much everyone else should > never call it.

For record, we also use this feature [1] and find it immensely helpful for our users.

-Edward

1. Although we haven't upgraded to libtiff 4 yet.