2010.02.11 21:56 "[Tiff] TIFF and IJG JPEG 8", by Bob Friesenhahn

2010.03.17 20:19 "Re: [Tiff] TIFFVStripSize overflow, JPEG decoding", by Adam Goode

On 03/16/2010 05:08 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

I am trying to develop software to support a new tiff file source of large medical images. Using libtiff I am encountering problems with TIFFOpen, I suspect because the dimensions are causing overflow of 32-bit variables (image dimensions in the tens-of-thousands).

Here are freely-available images in this format:

http://openslide.cs.cmu.edu/download/openslide-testdata/Hamamatsu/

If libtiff 3 can be fixed to read the header, OpenSlide can have the support added to it. Otherwise, libtiff 4 will be required.

Adam