Where can I download the TIFF Specification?
The online PDF formatted TIFF 6.0 Specification is available from Adobe in their Technical Notes for Developers Section; you will need an Adobe Acrobat Viewer to read this, also freely available from Adobe.A compressed PostScript version of the spec is available from the SGI TIFF archive, which also has an uncompressed version.
Older Revision Specs are also online (for historians, only!):
From the
unofficial tiff site: http://home.earthlink.net/~ritter/tiff/#spec Found
on: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transjour/graphguide/tagdef.html This
should give you verbose information on the structure of a tiff including where
the memory references for entering information to make a
program.
--------Original Message-----
From: Chuck Patch [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 4:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Tiff Metadata reader?Thanks for the various suggestions -- I'm still looking though; all of the sites that I've been directed to, or found, that cater to PC/Wintel-oriented users offer only source code libraries, usually in C++, that I could use to build tiff manipulating software. Alas, that's a bit beyond me.
I should explain that what I'm trying to do is trace the progress of metadata keyed-in through a couple of different versions of Photoshop, through the tiff files output from them, into a program called Portfolio Extensis, which we are using as a temporary holding-bin for our digitized images. Extensis is a specialized database app that will read tiff headers into a record structure, including the custom metadata that one can create in Photoshop and export to a tiff header. Unfortunately, we're having some trouble finding the data in the tiff files and mapping it consistently to the same fields in Extensis. I figured that if I could just read the header on the tiff file, I would have a better idea of what's going on.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Guenter Waibel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 3:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Tiff Metadata reader?
If you're on a Mac and looking for a pretty cheap & diry solution
which will give you access to some, but not all tiff file header
fields, check out iViewMultimediaPro at
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/. This nifty little asset management
program also lets you export the information of your choice to
tab-delimited text so it can be imported into another database
system. It doesn't let you look at the actual tagging of the image
file, though, if that's the prime concern - only at the content.Best,
Guenter>Chuck,
>
>Maybe this link is usefull:
>
>http://picturemetadata.sourceforge.net/
>
>Bert
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Chuck Patch [mailto:[email protected]]
> Verzonden: ma 20-5-2002 19:28
> Aan: [email protected]
> CC:
> Onderwerp: Tiff Metadata reader?
>
>
>
> Does anyone know of a simple (preferably free) tiff file
>reader that shows the metadata tags? I don't even care if I can't
>see the image -- I'd just like to be able to read-out the metadata
>and see how it's tagged.
>
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