TIFFREADENCODEDSTRIP(3tiff)

💖 TIFFREADENCODEDSTRIP 💖

okay so bestie, this is a page from the LibTIFF manuals — yes, the TIFFReadEncodedStrip(3tiff) one — and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am. it's literally just one function but she does a lot, so buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

TIFFReadEncodedStrip — read and decode a strip of data from an open TIFF file 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <tiffio.h>

tmsize_t TIFFReadEncodedStrip(TIFF *tif, uint32_t strip, void *buf,
tmsize_t size)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So basically you read the strip you asked for, and up to size bytes of decompressed info get dropped into the data buffer that you supplied. your buffer, your problem, but also your victory 💅

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✨ NOTES ✨

okay this part is giving read carefully energy:

• the value of strip is a "raw strip number". that means you have to account for whether the data is organized in separate planes, i.e. PlanarConfiguration = 2. no, she will not do it for you, she is busy ✨
• to read a full strip of data, your data buffer should typically be at least as big as the number returned by TIFFStripSize(). size matters, bestie, we don't make the rules 💀
• if -1 is passed in the size parameter, the whole strip will be read. and you better be sure you have enough space allocated for the buffer, because this is a no-take-backs situation 😭

seriously. -1 means "read it all" and if your buffer isn't big enough that's on you. allocate generously, queen 👑

also, the library is genuinely being a good friend here: it attempts to hide bit- and byte-ordering differences between the image and the native machine by converting data to the native machine order. iconic behavior honestly 🌈

• bit reversal is done if the FillOrder tag is opposite to the native machine bit order 🧚
• 16- and 32-bit samples are automatically byte-swapped if the file was written with a byte order opposite to the native machine byte order 🔥

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✨ RETURN VALUES ✨

she returns the actual number of bytes of data that were placed in buf. and if an error was encountered? TIFFReadEncodedStrip() returns -1. yeah. that kind of day 🙈

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✨ DIAGNOSTICS ✨

all error messages are directed to the TIFFErrorExtR() routine. that's where the drama gets reported 📢

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• TIFFOpen (3tiff)
• TIFFReadRawStrip (3tiff)
• TIFFReadScanline (3tiff)
• TIFFReadEncodedTile (3tiff)
• libtiff (3tiff)

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

LibTIFF contributors 👑

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✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

1988-2025, LibTIFF contributors

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and that's the whole page, bestie, no cap 🫶 version 4.7, dated Jun 27, 2026 — go forth and read those strips, you absolute main character 💖✨🌸