2001.01.04 14:03 "Re: NeXT tiffs", by Dale Amon

Thanks for the responses! First off, here are the error messages I get on them from most to least common. There are a few other odd ones, but it's hard to find them in a dump of thousands of such lines!

$ tiffinfo Space/AMES/whole.tiff

Space/AMES/whole.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 33603 (0x8343) ignored.
Space/AMES/whole.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 33604 (0x8344) ignored.
Space/AMES/whole.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 33605 (0x8345) ignored.
Space/AMES/whole.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 33606 (0x8346) ignored.
Space/AMES/whole.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 33607 (0x8347) ignored.
Space/AMES/whole.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 33608 (0x8348) ignored.
Space/AMES/whole.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 33609 (0x8349) ignored.

TIFF Directory at offset 0x4d4e
    Image Width: 640 Image Length: 480
    Tile Width: 640 Tile Length: 480
    Resolution: 72, 72 pixels/inch
    Bits/Sample: 8
    Compression Scheme: 32865 (0x8061)
    Photometric Interpretation: YCbCr
    Samples/Pixel: 3
    Planar Configuration: single image plane

$ tiffinfo LocalLibrary/Icons/FileTypes/WriteNow.tiff

LocalLibrary/Icons/FileTypes/WriteNow.tiff: Warning, invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.

TIFF Directory at offset 0x8
    Image Width: 48 Image Length: 48
    Bits/Sample: 2
    Compression Scheme: None
    Photometric Interpretation: separated
    Samples/Pixel: 2
    Planar Configuration: separate image planes

$ tiffinfo NeXTstep3.0/NeXTDeveloper2.1/Demos/Saturn.app/satellite7.tiff

NeXTstep3.0/NeXTDeveloper2.1/Demos/Saturn.app/satellite7.tiff: Warning, TIFF directory is missing required "StripByteCounts" field, calculating from imagelength.

TIFF Directory at offset 0x8
    Image Width: 76 Image Length: 152
    Bits/Sample: 2
    Compression Scheme: None
    Photometric Interpretation: min-is-black
    Planar Configuration: single image plane

$ tiffinfo LocalLibrary/References/OxfordQuotations/tiff/Quotations.tiff

LocalLibrary/References/OxfordQuotations/tiff/Quotations.tiff: Warning, invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
LocalLibrary/References/OxfordQuotations/tiff/Quotations.tiff: Warning, incorrect count for field "StripOffsets" (1, expecting 2); tag ignored.

$ tiffinfo LocalLibrary/LoginTIFF/Misc/cindy2.tiff

LocalLibrary/LoginTIFF/Misc/cindy2.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 512 (0x200) ignored.
LocalLibrary/LoginTIFF/Misc/cindy2.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 519 (0x207) ignored.
LocalLibrary/LoginTIFF/Misc/cindy2.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 520 (0x208) ignored.
LocalLibrary/LoginTIFF/Misc/cindy2.tiff: Warning, unknown field with tag 521 (0x209) ignored.
LocalLibrary/LoginTIFF/Misc/cindy2.tiff: Warning, incorrect count for field "ReferenceBlackWhite" (8, expecting 6); tag ignored.

TIFF Directory at offset 0x471a
    Image Width: 440 Image Length: 176
    Tile Width: 448 Tile Length: 176
    Resolution: 72, 72 pixels/inch
    Bits/Sample: 8
    Compression Scheme: Old-style JPEG
    Photometric Interpretation: YCbCr
    Extra Samples: 1<assoc-alpha>
    YCbCr Subsampling: 2, 2
    YCbCr Coefficients: 0.299, 0.587, 0.114
    Samples/Pixel: 4
    Planar Configuration: single image plane

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