2005.06.28 09:09 "[Tiff] Simpler interface than strip-oriented interface", by Katrina Maramba

2005.08.19 08:06 "Re: [Tiff] TIFF Thumbnail", by Katrina Maramba

The definitive document on thumbnails in TIFF, and related, is the specification supplement that describes the SubIFD tag, which can be found here:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFFPM6.pdf

In short, it says that the SubIFD tag can contain the offset of a thumbnail image IFD. That solves a lot of trouble.

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How can the reader determine if a particular image has a thumbnail or not?

I recommend your code to do this, in this particular order:

Assuming that I have determined that this image has a thumbnail indeed, can I go and look for the thumbnail's IFD and and parse it like the main image's directory (which is (for example) call TIFFReadDirectory)?

And if so, can I also go and look for the thumbnail's strip (using strip offsets and strip byte count) and process the thumbnail using TIFFReadRGBAStrip (which would generate RGB data)?

If not, what would be the correct API to call to process the thumbnail?

Thank you,

Katrina

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