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authorBob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>2012-05-19 23:15:22 +0000
committerBob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>2012-05-19 23:15:22 +0000
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* man/TIFFGetField.3tiff: Correct the 'count' field type in the
example for how to retreive the value of unsupported tags.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/TIFFGetField.3tiff15
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man/TIFFGetField.3tiff b/man/TIFFGetField.3tiff
index 4d241ab2..0624ee9b 100644
--- a/man/TIFFGetField.3tiff
+++ b/man/TIFFGetField.3tiff
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: TIFFGetField.3tiff,v 1.5 2010-05-06 02:54:46 olivier Exp $
+.\" $Id: TIFFGetField.3tiff,v 1.6 2012-05-19 23:15:22 bfriesen Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler
.\" Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
@@ -188,14 +188,16 @@ is one, then a single array is returned; otherwise three arrays are returned.
Annex B.3 "Embedding ICC Profiles in TIFF Files" (available at
http://www.color.org) for an explanation.
.SH AUTOREGISTERED TAGS
-If you can't find the tag in the table above that means this is unsupported
-tag. But you still be able to read it's value if you know the data type of
+If you can't find the tag in the table above that means this is an unsupported
+tag and is not directly supported by
+.BR libtiff(3TIFF)
+library. You will still be able to read it's value if you know the data type of
that tag. For example, if you want to read the LONG value from the tag 33424
and ASCII string from the tag 36867 you can use the following code:
.PP
.RS
.nf
-uint16 count;
+uint32 count;
void *data;
TIFFGetField(tiff, 33424, &count, &data);
@@ -205,11 +207,6 @@ printf("Tag %d: %s, count %d\n", 36867, (char *)data, count);
.fi
.RE
.PP
-
-
-is not supported by
-.BR libtiff(3TIFF),
-library
.SH RETURN VALUES
1 is returned if the tag is defined in the current directory; otherwise a 0 is
returned.