TIFF文件格式中文解说（国外英文资料）.doc

TIFF文件格式中文解说 This article is based on the Tiff Revision 6 document from Adobe, and some of them refer to the book image file format published by Tsinghua University This article sorted out the basic format of the TIFF file and the description of the commonly used tags: For the compression methods used in the TIFF file, this article is not detailed If there is any mistake, please correct me Xuhappy xuxuhappy@ 2000-7-17 TIFF (Tag, Image, File, Format) image file description: The TIFF file is composed of many tags (tag), in the description of the Adobe tiff6.0 (tag), will be explained to the corresponding numerical labels, while the actual entrance in each file label called (field), call for the domain. TIFF supports black and white, grayscale, color image formats, and also accepts RGB, CMYK and other color systems, while supporting image data such as LZW, Huffman and other compression algorithms or not compression. The TIFF file is divided into two parts: the file header and the IFD. A IFD stores information about an image. IFD can consist of many tags. In the TIFF6.0 file, all labels must be arranged in ascending order to process the image data in the document by means of these tag information. TIFF file header description: The TIFF file header has 8 bytes 0-1 specifies the order of bytes forIIorMM Intel /Mortorola types Version 2-3 of the TIFF file, compatible with previous ones, is 42 The offset of the first IFD of the 4-7 TIFF file in the file must be greater than 8 IFD Description: IFD is composed of contiguous Tags The number of tags in OFFSET:0-1 IFD The first label in OFFSET:2-13 IFD Second tabs in OFFSET:14-25 IFD The OFFSET:2+12* tag counts the offset of a IFD (relative to the text) in a TIFF file, where multiple IFD can be used to store multiple images, and if that number is 0, it means that all the IFD has been processed. Label Description: a label consists of 12 consecutive bytes The numeric number (tag) corresponding to the OFFSET:0-1 TAG ID tag used to