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From: "Joris" <joris.at.lebbeke@skynet.be>
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Subject: Re: [Tiff] How to find/read resolution values 
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Muthu,

muthu kumar wrote:
> http://www.devdaily.com/unix/man/man3/TIFFGetField.3t.shtml

The word for the disease of which your link is a symptom, is 'diaspora',
I think. There are hundreds of copies of the man pages everywhere, most
of them very outdated, while most misleadingly seem up to date... If we
want to convince people  there's LibTiff beyond version 2.x.x, we'll
have to wait a decade for the average version number out there to
advance that much...

No, it's worse, there's also that hijacked site whose URL and presence
in all old-timer's bookmarks strongly suggests it is the official one,
as in fact it once was...

It's also a bit ironical that people are actually making money of such
copies, putting up Google and other ads on those pages, while actual
LibTiff, the actual tree that cannot be found surrounded as it is by a
vast forest of outdated snapshots, often doesn't advance as much as it
could due to lack of funds.

So please be aware that the official website of LibTiff is
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/. The man pages are at
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/man/index.html. So the single
official copy of the TIFFGetField man page is
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/man/TIFFGetField.3tiff.html.


Best regards,

Joris Van Damme
info@awaresystems.be
http://www.awaresystems.be/
Download your free TIFF tag viewer for windows here:
http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/astifftagviewer.html

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