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.\" $Id: TIFFWriteDirectory.3tiff,v 1.2 2005-11-02 11:07:18 dron Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler
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.\" Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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.if n .po 0
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.TH TIFFWriteDirectory 3TIFF "September 26, 2001" "libtiff"
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.SH NAME
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TIFFWriteDirectory, TIFFRewriteDirectory, TIFFCheckpointDirectory \- write the
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current directory in an open
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.SM TIFF
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file
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B "#include <tiffio.h>"
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.sp
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.BI "int TIFFWriteDirectory(TIFF *" tif ")"
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.br
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.BI "int TIFFRewriteDirectory(TIFF *" tif ")"
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.br
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.BI "int TIFFCheckpointDirectory(TIFF *" tif ")"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.IR TIFFWriteDirectory
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will write the contents of the current directory to the file and setup to
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create a new subfile in the same file. Applications only need to call
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.IR TIFFWriteDirectory
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when writing multiple subfiles to a single
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.SM TIFF
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file.
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.IR TIFFWriteDirectory
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is automatically called by
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.IR TIFFClose
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and
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.IR TIFFFlush
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to write a modified directory if the file is open for writing.
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.PP
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The
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.IR TIFFRewriteDirectory
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function operates similarly to
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.IR TIFFWriteDirectory,
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but can be called with directories previously read or written that already
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have an established location in the file. It will rewrite the directory,
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but instead of place it at it's old location (as
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.IR TIFFWriteDirectory
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would) it will place them at the end of the file, correcting the pointer from
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the preceeding directory or file header to point to it's new location. This
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is particularly important in cases where the size of the directory and
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pointed to data has grown, so it won't fit in the space available at the
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old location.
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.PP
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The
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.IR TIFFCheckpointDirectory
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writes the current state of the tiff directory into the file to make what
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is currently in the file readable. Unlike
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.IR TIFFWriteDirectory,
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.IR TIFFCheckpointDirectory
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does not free up the directory data structures in memory, so they can be
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updated (as strips/tiles are written) and written again. Reading such
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a partial file you will at worst get a tiff read error for the first
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strip/tile encountered that is incomplete, but you will at least get
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all the valid data in the file before that. When the file is complete,
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just use
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.IR TIFFWriteDirectory
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as usual to finish it off cleanly.
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.SH "RETURN VALUES"
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1 is returned when the contents are successfully written to the file.
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Otherwise, 0 is returned if an error was encountered when writing
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the directory contents.
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.SH DIAGNOSTICS
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All error messages are directed to the
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.IR TIFFError (3TIFF)
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routine.
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.PP
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.BR "Error post-encoding before directory write" .
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Before writing the contents of the current directory, any pending data are
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flushed. This message indicates that an error occurred while doing this.
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.PP
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.BR "Error flushing data before directory write" .
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Before writing the contents of the current directory, any pending data are
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flushed. This message indicates that an error occurred while doing this.
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.PP
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.BR "Cannot write directory, out of space" .
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There was not enough space to allocate a temporary area for the directory that
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was to be written.
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.PP
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.BR "Error writing directory count" .
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A write error occurred when writing the count of fields in the directory.
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.PP
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.BR "Error writing directory contents" .
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A write error occurred when writing the directory fields.
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.PP
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.BR "Error writing directory link" .
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A write error occurred when writing the link to the next directory.
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.PP
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\fBError writing data for field "%s"\fP.
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A write error occurred when writing indirect data for the specified field.
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.PP
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.BR "Error writing TIFF header" .
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A write error occurred when re-writing header at the front of the file.
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.PP
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.BR "Error fetching directory count" .
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A read error occurred when fetching the directory count field for
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a previous directory.
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This can occur when setting up a link to the directory that is being
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written.
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.PP
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.BR "Error fetching directory link" .
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A read error occurred when fetching the directory link field for
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a previous directory.
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This can occur when setting up a link to the directory that is being
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written.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR TIFFOpen (3TIFF),
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.BR TIFFError (3TIFF),
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.BR TIFFReadDirectory (3TIFF),
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.BR TIFFSetDirectory (3TIFF),
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.BR libtiff (3TIFF)
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.PP
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Libtiff library home page:
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.BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/
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