2007.01.31 10:53 "[Tiff] Interpreting SubIFDs tag", by mikk

2007.02.01 18:34 "Re: [Tiff] Interpreting SubIFDs tag", by Joris Van Damme

Phil,

Here is the document that invented the SubIFD concept -- this is the "Tiff Trees" approach. (http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFFPM6.pdf)

To quote this specification:

"If there is more than 1 child image for a given parent image, the NextIFD value of Child #1 must point to Child #2, and so on. The last Child’s NextIFD value must be zero."

I should point out that Adobe themselves don't store multiple SubIFD's like this.

The current version of the Adobe DNG converter writes multiple SubIFD's by storing a separate pointer for each in the SubIFD tag (and each SubIFD has a zero NextIFD pointer).

But this is definitely not the first time that Adobe has ignored their own specification.

I don't think they ignored their own specification...

A subpart of a spec, is never able to overwrite the grand scheme. The grand scheme does any tag to be an array of values.

Best regards,

Joris Van Damme
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