File Formats: TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

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TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

TIFF is a tag-based file format designed to promote universal interchanges of digital image data. Because TIFF files do not have a single way to store image data, there are many versions of TIFF. LEADTOOLS supports the most common TIFF formats. The usual file extension is TIFF for single-image files, and MPT for multipage files (which can contain many images). TIFF files can contain many comment fields of various types. You can use the ReadComment method to read comments in an existing file. Before writing a file, you can use the Comments property to set an array of comments to be saved in the file.

LEAD supports loading and saving multi-page files in this format.

LEADTOOLS can read and write TIFF files that use RGB, CMYK, or YCbCr color space. LEADTOOLS can also read and write files with PackBits compression.

LEADTOOLS can also read and write files with Lossless JPEG compression for 8, 12, and 16-bit grayscale and 24-bit color spacing.

You can read and write 12- bit grayscale. (Document/Medical toolkits only)

Regions are saved automatically inside TIFF files. For more information, refer to Saving a Region. Note, however, that the ability to save a region inside a TIFF file must be unlocked, which requires a Document Imaging or Medical Imaging toolkit.

Only TIFF and DICOM file formats are capable of saving images that have been window-leveled. Images can be window-leveled by using WindowLevel and specifying RasterWindowLevelMode.PaintAndProcessing for the flags parameter or by loading an image from a file format that supports window-leveling. If a window-leveled image is saved as any other file format, the image data will be converted before being saved. For more information, refer to Saving Window-Leveled Images.

The file constants associated with this file format are:

WIC Codec CLSID

WIC Codec Subformat

RasterImageViewer.Save
File Constant
Read Support Write Support Description
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTif Tif 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 BPP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 BPP Tagged Image File Format, with no compression and with RGB color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifCmyk TifCmyk 24, 32 BPP 24, 32 BPP Tagged Image File Format, with no compression and with CMYK color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifYcc TifYcc 24 BPP 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format, with no compression and with YCbCr color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifPackBits TifPackbits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 32 BPP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 32 BPP Tagged Image File Format with PackBits Compression and RGB color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifPackBitsCmyk TifPackbitsCmyk 24, 32 BPP 24, 32 BPP Tagged Image File Format with PackBits Compression and CMYK color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifPackbitsYcc TifPackbitsYcc 24 BPP 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format with PackBits Compression and color YCbCr space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifLzw TifLzw 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 BPP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 BPP Tagged Image File Format with LZW Compression and RGB color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifLzwCmyk TifLzwCmyk 24, 32 BPP 24, 32 BPP Tagged Image File Format with LZW Compression and CMYK color space
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifLzwYcc TifLzwYcc 24 BPP 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format with LZW Compression and YCbCr color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifJpeg TifJpeg 8, 12 (Grayscale), 16 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP 8, 12 (Grayscale), 16 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format with JPEG compression and YUV 4:4:4 color space Lossless.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifJpeg422 TifJpeg422 8 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP 8 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format with JPEG compression and YUV 4:2:2 color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifJpeg411 TifJpeg411 8 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP 8 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format with JPEG compression and YUV 4:1:1 color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifCmp TifCmp 8 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP 8 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format with CMP Compression
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifJbig TifJbig 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 (Grayscale), 16, 24, 32 BPP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 (Grayscale), 16, 24, 32 BPP Tagged Image File Format with JBIG Compression.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifJbig2 TifJbig2 1 BPP 1 BPP Tagged Image File Format with JBIG2 Compression.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifJ2k TifJ2k 8, 12 (Grayscale), 16 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP 8, 12 (Grayscale), 16 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format with JPEG 2000 Compression. This file format contains only a stream of image data.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifCmw TifCmw 8, 12 (Grayscale), 16 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP 8, 12 (Grayscale), 16 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format with Wavelet CMP Compression.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatGeoTiff GeoTiff 16 BPP (Grayscale) 16 BPP (Grayscale) GeoTIFF file format.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatExif Exif 24 BPP 24 BPP Exif file containing a TIFF image, with no compression and with RGB color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatExifYcc ExifYcc 24 BPP 24 BPP Exif file containing a TIFF image, with no compression and with YCbCr color space.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatExifJpeg422 ExifJpeg422 24 BPP 24 BPP Exif file containing a JPEG compressed image.
CLSID_WICLeadJpegEncoder WICLeadSubFormatExifJpeg411 ExifJpeg411 24 BPP 24 BPP Exif 2.0 file containing a JPEG compressed image.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatCcitt Ccitt 1 BPP 1 BPP Tagged Image File Format, compressed using CCITT.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatCcittGroup31Dim CcittGroup31Dim 1 BPP 1 BPP Tagged Image File Format, compressed using CCITT, group 3, 1 dimension.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatCcittGroup32Dim CcittGroup32Dim 1 BPP 1 BPP Tagged Image File Format, compressed using CCITT, group 3, 2 dimensions.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatCcittGroup4 CcittGroup4 1 BPP 1 BPP Tagged Image File Format, compressed using CCITT, group 4.
TifUnknown NA NA Tagged Image File Format, with unknown compression.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifAbc TifAbc 1 BPP 1 BPP Tagged Image File Format with ABC compression.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifMrc TifMrc 24 BPP 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format with MRC compression.
CLSID_WICLeadTiffEncoder WICLeadSubFormatTifLeadMrc TifLeadMrc 24 BPP 24 BPP Tagged Image File Format with LEAD MRC compression.
TifZip 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 (Grayscale), 16, 24, 32 BPP None Tagged Image File Format with ZIP compression.

The LEADTOOLS WinRT SDK supports the TIFF format.

The LEADTOOLS Android SDK supports the TIFF format.

Required DLL: Leadtools.Codecs.Tif.Dll. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.

For loading or saving CMYK files or LAB color space files, you will also need Leadtools.ColorConversion.dll.

Related Formats: CMP - LEAD Compressed, CMP - LEAD 1-Bit Format, EXIF - Exif Formats, JPG - JPEG Compressed, JP2 - JPEG 2000 Compressed, TIFX - Xerox Internet Fax File Format, LEADTOOLS ABC Compression.

 

 


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