TIFFReadRGBAImage

TriggerTek Logo
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_
TIFFReadRGBAImage(3T)					TIFFReadRGBAImage(3T)



NAME
       TIFFReadRGBAImage  -  read  and	decode	an  image into a fixed-format
       raster

SYNOPSIS
       #include <tiffio.h>

       #define TIFFGetR(abgr)	((abgr) & 0xff)
       #define TIFFGetG(abgr)	(((abgr) >> 8) & 0xff)
       #define TIFFGetB(abgr)	(((abgr) >> 16) & 0xff)
       #define TIFFGetA(abgr)	(((abgr) >> 24) & 0xff)

       int TIFFReadRGBAImage(TIFF *tif, u_long width, u_long  height,  u_long
       *raster, int stopOnError)
       int  TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(TIFF *tif, u_long width, u_long height,
       u_long *raster, int orientation, int stopOnError)

DESCRIPTION
       TIFFReadRGBAImage reads a strip-	 or  tile-based	 image	into  memory,
       storing the result in the user supplied raster.	The raster is assumed
       to be an array of width times height 32-bit entries, where width	 must
       be  less	 than  or  equal to the width of the image (height may be any
       non-zero size).	If the raster dimensions are smaller than the  image,
       the  image data is cropped to the raster bounds.	 If the raster height
       is greater than that of the image, then the image data are  placed  in
       the  lower  part of the raster.	(Note that the raster is assume to be
       organized such that the pixel at location (x,y) is  raster[y*width+x];
       with the raster origin in the lower-left hand corner.)

       TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented  works like TIFFReadRGBAImage with except of
       that user can specify the raster origin position with the  orientation
       parameter. Four orientations supported:

       ORIENTATION_TOPLEFT
	      origin in top-left corner,

       ORIENTATION_TOPRIGHT
	      origin in top-right corner,

       ORIENTATION_BOTLEFT
	      origin in bottom-left corner and

       ORIENTATION_BOTRIGHT
	      origin in bottom-right corner.

       If  you choose ORIENTATION_BOTLEFT result will be the same as returned
       by the TIFFReadRGBAImage.

       Raster pixels are 8-bit packed red, green, blue, alpha  samples.	  The
       macros  TIFFGetR,  TIFFGetG,  TIFFGetB, and TIFFGetA should be used to
       access individual samples.  Images without  Associated  Alpha  matting
       information have a constant Alpha of 1.0 (255).

       TIFFReadRGBAImage  converts non-8-bit images by scaling sample values.
       Palette, grayscale, bilevel, CMYK, and YCbCr images are	converted  to
       RGB transparently.  Raster pixels are returned uncorrected by any col-
       orimetry information present in the directory.

       The paramater stopOnError specifies how to act if an error is  encoun-
       tered  while  reading  the image.  If stopOnError is non-zero, then an
       error will terminate the operation; otherwise  TIFFReadRGBAImage	 will
       continue processing data until all the possible data in the image have
       been requested.

NOTES
       In C++ the stopOnError parameter defaults to 0.

       Samples must be either 1, 2, 4, 8,  or  16  bits.   Colorimetric	 sam-
       ples/pixel  must	 be  either  1,	 3, or 4 (i.e.	SamplesPerPixel minus
       ExtraSamples).

       Palettte image colormaps that appear  to	 be  incorrectly  written  as
       8-bit values are automatically scaled to 16-bits.

       TIFFReadRGBAImage  is  just  a wrapper around the more general TIFFRG-
       BAImage(3T) facilities.

RETURN VALUES
       1 is returned if the image was successfully read and converted.	 Oth-
       erwise,	0  is returned if an error was encountered and stopOnError is
       zero.

DIAGNOSTICS
       All error messages are directed to the TIFFError(3T) routine.

       Sorry, can not handle %d-bit pictures.  The  image  had	BitsPerSample
       other than 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16.

       Sorry,  can  not	 handle %d-channel images.  The image had SamplesPer-
       Pixel other than 1, 3, or 4.

       Missing needed "PhotometricInterpretation" tag.	 The  image  did  not
       have a tag that describes how to display the data.

       No "PhotometricInterpretation" tag, assuming RGB.  The image was miss-
       ing a tag that describes how to display it, but because it has 3 or  4
       samples/pixel, it is assumed to be RGB.

       No  "PhotometricInterpretation" tag, assuming min-is-black.  The image
       was missing a tag that describes how to display it, but because it has
       1 sample/pixel, it is assumed to be a grayscale or bilevel image.

       No  space  for  photometric  conversion table.  There was insufficient
       memory for a table used to convert image samples to 8-bit RGB.

       Missing required "Colormap" tag.	 A  Palette  image  did	 not  have  a
       required Colormap tag.

       No  space  for tile buffer.  There was insufficient memory to allocate
       an i/o buffer.

       No space for strip buffer.  There was insufficient memory to  allocate
       an i/o buffer.

       Can  not	 handle	 format.   The	image  has  a  format (combination of
       BitsPerSample, SamplesPerPixel,	and  PhotometricInterpretation)	 that
       TIFFReadRGBAImage can not handle.

       No  space  for  B&W  mapping  table.  There was insufficient memory to
       allocate a table used to map grayscale data to RGB.

       No space for Palette mapping table.  There was insufficient memory  to
       allocate a table used to map data to 8-bit RGB.

SEE ALSO
       libtiff(3T),  TIFFOpen(3T),  TIFFRGBAImage(3T), TIFFReadRGBAStrip(3T),
       TIFFReadRGBATile(3T)



			       October 03, 2003		TIFFReadRGBAImage(3T)