2012.02.18 22:46 "[Tiff] libtiff 4.0.1 and 3.9.6 released", by Bob Friesenhahn

2012.03.27 23:20 "Re: [Tiff] Question about TAG_BITSPERSAMPLE", by Steve McKinney

Bob,

Thanks for the speedy response. I can work around the lack of support for differing sample sizes, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something before proceeding.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 4:03 PM
To: Steve McKinney
Cc: tiff@lists.maptools.org

Subject: Re: [Tiff] Question about TAG_BITSPERSAMPLE

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Steve McKinney wrote:

> The TIFF spec defines the BitsPerSample tag as an array of unsigned > short integer values with a size of SamplesPerPixel, so each sample

> may hypothetically have a different size.  AFAICT, Libtiff, however, > appears to only support a single unsigned short integer value when setting TAG_BITSPERSAMPLE.  Is this correct?  Does Libtiff assume / require that all

samples must be the same size?

Libtiff does require that all samples be the same size.

Bob
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