Splitting TIFFs (was Re: Yet more on -8/m Mem problems)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Nov 23 18:47:26 1999

On Nov 23, 21:44, Tony Duell wrote:
> >
> > ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
> > > My guess is that tifftopnm (which is what I normally use) is only
going
> > > to extract the first page as well. Anybody got a utility to pull the
tiff
> > > apart into individual pages?
> >
> > Look for tiffsplit, which I think comes with libtiff (so if you built
>
> Right... The version of the pnm tools I installed came with libtiff
> (correctly configured :-)), but not with any other utilities...
>
> However, I now know what to look for when I need to split up multi-page
> tiffs (which is hopefully not too often) -- thanks!

I thought of tiffsplit too, but I tried it on a couple of the smaller tiffs
from highgate today -- and it choked. tiffsplit only recognises a limited
set of tags, and those tiffs seem to have at least one it doesn't like :-(

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Tue Nov 23 1999 - 18:47:26 GMT

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