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diff --git a/doc/functions/TIFFWriteDirectory.rst b/doc/functions/TIFFWriteDirectory.rst index 8682d5f0..00bac0b1 100644 --- a/doc/functions/TIFFWriteDirectory.rst +++ b/doc/functions/TIFFWriteDirectory.rst @@ -24,9 +24,12 @@ Description ----------- :c:func:`TIFFWriteDirectory` will write the contents of the current -directory to the file and setup to create a new subfile in the same -file. Applications only need to call :c:func:`TIFFWriteDirectory` -when writing multiple subfiles to a single TIFF file. +directory (IFD) to the file and setup to create a new directory (IFD) +using :c:func:`TIFFCreateDirectory`. +Applications only need to call :c:func:`TIFFWriteDirectory` +when writing multiple subfiles (images) to a single TIFF file. +This is called "multi-page TIFF" or "multi-image TIFF" +(see :doc:`/multi_page`). :c:func:`TIFFWriteDirectory` is automatically called by :c:func:`TIFFClose` and :c:func:`TIFFFlush` to write a modified directory if the file is open for writing. @@ -133,4 +136,5 @@ See also :doc:`TIFFSetDirectory` (3tiff), :doc:`TIFFReadDirectory` (3tiff), :doc:`TIFFError` (3tiff), +:doc:`/multi_page`, :doc:`libtiff` (3tiff) |