1996.12.16 12:25 "no more strip chopping as default !", by Louis Garde

( * VERSION: v3.4beta035 )
( * TARGET: sparc-sun-solaris2.5 )

I think it would be better to have no strip chopping as default behaviour, because it may induce unexpected behaviour in all applications that uses the standard "r" option to open a Tiff file - this is what happened to me after updating an old version of libtiff without strip chopping.

It is clearly specified in the TIFFOpen man page that:

"Strip chopping does however alter the apparent contents of the
 image because when an image is divided into multiple strips it
 looks as though the underlying file contains multiple separate
 strips [tiles]."

The trouble is that strip chopping is the default mode of the libtiff package:

tiffconf.h, line 122
        #define STRIPCHOP_SUPPORT  1  /* enable strip chopping */

tif_open.c, line 164 :
        /*
         * Default is to return data MSB2LSB and enable the
         * use of memory-mapped files and strip chopping when
         * a file is opened read-only.
         */
        tif->tif_flags = FILLORDER_MSB2LSB;
        if (m == O_RDONLY)
                tif->tif_flags |= TIFF_MAPPED|TIFF_STRIPCHOP;

I have noticed that the tiffinfo tool currently returns erroneous information for some uncompressed stripped files, because it does not use the "rc" option when opening the file. So if the strip chopping remains the default, then the opening mode of tiffinfo (and may be other tools) should be updated.

Louis.