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Carleton, Sam wrote:
> 
> I have a simply question, what is the orientation of a tiff?  Is (0,0) lower
> left or upper left?  If it is not consistent, how do I determine the
> orientation?
> 
> Sam

Have a look into the TIVV V6 spec. There is a tag named "Orientation",
and how
to interprete this is explained in detail there.
This tag defaults to 1, and that means the origin is the upper left
corner, the scanlines (rows) from left to right and the columns from 
top to bottom

Helge
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