2004.02.24 19:46 "Re: [Tiff] Support for 16-bits per sample images", by Bob Friesenhahn

What the other guys have told you on this list is that libtiff is capable of producing the original 16-bit data, but the interfaces require that you parse the data in your own application. Care must be taken since 16-bit TIFF can be big or little endian and the data is not re-ordered for you.

If that is the case, that would be a major bug in LibTIFF -- because differencing predictors have to be applied/removed in native byte order.

LibTIFF should always convert the image data to native byte order before handing it off.

I suspect that you are right. I do know that ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick includes code to re-order these bytes to big-endian order, but that may be for ease of implementation since it always reads the data as an octet stream and never as 'unsigned short'.

Bob

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