2017.08.30 17:11 "Re: [Tiff] problems saving BigTIFF format", by Bob Friesenhahn

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017, Paul Hemmer wrote:

By the way, where can I find the latest official LibTIFF release that supports BigTIFF? I should be sure I'm using the right version. It seems there are a variety of links out there that point to old content and "page not found"

Unfortunately, the web site domain has been lost a couple of times already. These are the two official pages:

   http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
   http://libtiff.maptools.org/

The simple answer as to what version of libtiff is required to support BigTIFF is that libtiff version v4 or later is required.

All that should be necessary to enable BigTIFF is to pass the additional flag "8" in the open flags string to TIFFOpen() or TIFFClientOpen().

Unfortunately, the page at http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/man/TIFFOpen.3tiff.html does not appear to be updated to include the above.

Bob
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