From b298ae255cd6f937851e8355fb127d73c4ffd95e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 23:15:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * man/TIFFGetField.3tiff: Correct the 'count' field type in
 the example for how to retreive the value of unsupported tags.

---
 ChangeLog              |  5 +++++
 man/TIFFGetField.3tiff | 15 ++++++---------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 530ebb3b..411fc1a2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-05-19  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
+
+	* man/TIFFGetField.3tiff: Correct the 'count' field type in the
+	example for how to retreive the value of unsupported tags.
+
 2012-03-30  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam@google.com>
 
 	* tif_getimage.c: Fix size overflow (zdi-can-1221,CVE-2012-1173)
diff --git a/man/TIFFGetField.3tiff b/man/TIFFGetField.3tiff
index 4d241ab2..0624ee9b 100644
--- a/man/TIFFGetField.3tiff
+++ b/man/TIFFGetField.3tiff
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: TIFFGetField.3tiff,v 1.5 2010-05-06 02:54:46 olivier Exp $
+.\" $Id: TIFFGetField.3tiff,v 1.6 2012-05-19 23:15:22 bfriesen Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler
 .\" Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
@@ -188,14 +188,16 @@ is one, then a single array is returned; otherwise three arrays are returned.
 Annex B.3 "Embedding ICC Profiles in TIFF Files" (available at
 http://www.color.org) for an explanation.
 .SH AUTOREGISTERED TAGS
-If you can't find the tag in the table above that means this is unsupported
-tag. But you still be able to read it's value if you know the data type of
+If you can't find the tag in the table above that means this is an unsupported
+tag and is not directly supported by
+.BR libtiff(3TIFF)
+library. You will still be able to read it's value if you know the data type of
 that tag. For example, if you want to read the LONG value from the tag 33424
 and ASCII string from the tag 36867 you can use the following code:
 .PP
 .RS
 .nf
-uint16  count;
+uint32  count;
 void    *data;
 
 TIFFGetField(tiff, 33424, &count, &data);
@@ -205,11 +207,6 @@ printf("Tag %d: %s, count %d\n", 36867, (char *)data, count);
 .fi
 .RE
 .PP
-
-
-is not supported by
-.BR libtiff(3TIFF),
-library
 .SH RETURN VALUES
 1 is returned if the tag is defined in the current directory; otherwise a 0 is
 returned.