TIFFINFO(1)

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version 4.7.2 · 17 versions
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✨ TIFFINFO 💅

okay so bestie, this is a LibTIFF manual page — tiffinfo(1), section 1, in case you were wondering where we are rn 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

tiffinfo — literally prints info about TIFF files, no cap ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tiffinfo [ options ] input.tif …

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So tiffinfo spills all the tea about files that were made according to the Tag Image File Format, Revision 6.0 🫶

By default? It shows you the contents of each TIFF directory in each file, and it shows the value of every tag symbolically — but only where that actually makes sense, bestie, it's not gonna be weird about it 😌

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -c — displays the colormap and the color/gray response curves, if they're even there 👀
  • -D — on top of showing the directory tags, it reads AND decompresses all the data in each image. But it does not display it. It's giving "read it and weep, but silently" 💀
  • -d — on top of showing the directory tags, it prints every single byte of that decompressed data in hexadecimal. Every. Byte. Iconic honestly 🔥
  • -j — displays any JPEG-related tags that are present 📸
  • -o — sets the initial TIFF directory according to the file offset you specify. And the offset can be written with the usual C-style syntax, i.e. a leading 0x for hexadecimal and a leading 0 for octal ✨
  • -s — displays the offsets and byte counts for each data strip in a directory 🎀
  • -z — enables strip chopping when reading image data 🔪
  • -# — sets the initial TIFF directory to # (yes, a literal number, you fill it in) 💅
  • -W — warns you about unknown tags. it's looking out for you fr fr 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

pal2rgb, tiffcp, tiffcmp, tiffmedian, libtiff

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

LibTIFF contributors — the main characters, honestly 🧚

1988-2025, LibTIFF contributors

and that's the whole vibe, bestie — this was LibTIFF version 4.7, dated Jun 27, 2026, and yes the manual page header said TIFFINFO(1) the whole time, iykyk 💅✨

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