tiffsplittiles(1)

💖 tiffsplittiles — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this little tool from the General Commands Manual is genuinely iconic and you're gonna love her.

✨ NAME ✨

tiffsplittiles — she copies tiles from a tiled TIFF file into separate TIFF files. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

tiffsplittiles [-t] file.tif

yes queen, that's the whole invocation. one file, one optional flag, zero drama.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, fr fr: tiffsplittiles opens up file.tif and it deals with its first image only. other images, if there are any hanging around in there? omitted. gone. not invited to the party 🙈

if that first image is tiled, she produces one TIFF file containing each of the tiles. absolutely slaying. but if it's not tiled? she outputs an error message. no tiles, no vibes. 😭

the compression type of each output file is the same as in the input file — she's not out here changing your compression behind your back, that would be so rude.

the output TIFF files are stripped by default, or tiled if the option -t is provided on the command line. your call, your aesthetic ✨

now, the naming situation, because this part is lowkey genius: the names given to the output files are created by adding the row and column numbers of the piece after the name of the original image and before the extension. so organized. so main character. 👑

and for speed? to speed up treatment, tiles will be extracted in parallel by the available CPU cores, through the OpenMP library. she's multithreaded and she knows it. 🔥

pro tip bestie: set the environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS to n (e.g. 1) to prevent the use of more than n cores. perfect for when you want her to chill tf out and not eat your entire machine. 🫶

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -T — do not report TIFF errors or warnings. under Windows, they are reported with noisy dialog boxes, so this is your "please stop yelling at me" flag. 😌

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go give her friends some love too:

• tiffmakemosaic(1)
• tifffastcrop(1)
• tiffsplit(1)
• tiffcrop(1)
• libtiff(3TIFF)

Home Page https://pperso.ijclab.in2p3.fr/page_perso/Deroulers/software/largetifftools/

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Christophe Deroulers

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this is LargeTIFFTools 1.4.2, dated February 23rd, 2025 — periodt. go split some tiles, you've got this 💖✨🎀