TIFFREADENCODEDTILE(3tiff)

💖 TIFFREADENCODEDTILE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the LibTIFF corner of the manual pages, section 3tiff — this one's about TIFFReadEncodedTile, and it's giving "grab one tile, decode it, hand it over" energy. let's go ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

TIFFReadEncodedTile — read and decode a tile of data from an open TIFF file 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <tiffio.h>

tmsize_t TIFFReadEncodedTile(TIFF *tif, uint32_t tile, void *buf,
tmsize_t size)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So basically 💅 — you read the specified tile of data, and the function places up to size bytes of decompressed info into the data buffer that you supplied (yes, you bring the buffer, it brings the decoding, that's the deal 🫶).

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👑 NOTES 👑

okay so this is the part where the details actually matter, no cap:

• The value of tile is a "raw tile number". That means the caller has to take into account whether or not the data are organized in separate planes (PlanarConfiguration = 2). TIFFComputeTile() automatically does this for you when it converts an (x,y,z,sample) coordinate quadruple into a tile number. iykyk 😌
• To read a full tile of data, your data buffer should be at least as large as the value returned by TIFFTileSize(). not optional, bestie, size it right 🙈
• The library tries to hide bit- and byte-ordering differences between the image and the native machine by converting data to the native machine order. Bit reversal is done if the FillOrder tag is opposite to the native machine bit order. And 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. it's literally doing the translation work for you, main character behavior 🔥

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🌈 RETURN VALUES 🌈

The actual number of bytes of data that were placed in buf is returned. But if something goes wrong, TIFFReadEncodedTile() returns -1. 💀

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🎀 DIAGNOSTICS 🎀

All error messages are directed to the TIFFErrorExtR() routine. so if it's yelling, that's where the yelling goes 🍓

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• TIFFOpen (3tiff)
• TIFFReadRawTile (3tiff)
• TIFFReadTile (3tiff)
• TIFFReadEncodedStrip (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 — brought to you by LibTIFF version 4.7, dated Jun 27, 2026. slay, go read some tiles 💅✨