2010.08.19 20:33 "[Tiff] libtiff on MAC 10.6", by Rajat Varma

2010.08.23 20:32 "Re: [Tiff] libtiff on MAC 10.6", by Tom Lane

So that libtiff library being shared by Apple's apps is some sort of phantom?

I don't see any libtiff in /usr/lib on my Mac. There obviously is TIFF
functionality in the system, but I'm not sure that libtiff as such is
exposed anywhere. I do see a /usr/bin/tiffutil, whose man page says

CREDITS

Parts of tiffutil were based on the freely distributable "tiffcp" and "tiffinfo" programs written by Sam Leffler and made available with v3.0 of his excellent TIFF library. The TIFF library and the tiffcp and tiffinfo programs are:

  Copyright (c) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 Sam Leffler
  Copyright (c) 1991, 1992 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

regards, tom lane