Message-ID: 380B7F5E.48FF@srz-berlin.de
To: tiff@olympiakos.com
Subject: Re: TIFFTAG_ORIENTATION
From: Helge Blischke <H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 22:13:18 +0200
Organization: SRZ BERLIN
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John McCann wrote:
> 
> I am creating tiffs that take advantage of the TIFFTAG_ORIENTATION.
> Can anyone tell me the name of an image viewer that respects this tag?
> 
> Thanks,
> John McCann
> jmccann@feith.com

The only one I know of is PixView from Pixel Translations, Inc.
It runs on Win9x and (probably) NT.

Most other applications (commercial or free) simply treat TIFF 
images as if they had TIFFTAG_ORIENTATION set to 1 (the default)
or map orientations values from 5 to 8 somehow into the range
1 to 4 or do "what they mean the user would accept".

You could get a PostScript procset containing a tiffshow.ps script
that works with Ghostscript and does it conforming to the TIFF V6 spec
(at least I hope so). Drop me an e-mail if you are interested.

Helge
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