DLF Fall Forum
Baltimore, October 25-27, 2004
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Non-Word-Aligned Offsets
•TIFF offsets must be word-aligned
–“The [IFD] directory may be at any location in the file after the header but must begin on a word boundary….The Value Offset is expected to begin on a word boundary; the corresponding Value Offset will thus be an even number” [TIFF Revision 6.0, pp. 13, 15]
– IFD at offset 62811
– Tag value at offset 1365
•Vendor tools include: Nikon D100, Photoshop 7.0, ScanFix, Enhanced Pixel Translations Inc., PIXTIFF Version 54.2.21, …