TIFFREADRAWSTRIP(3tiff)

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💾 TIFFReadRawStrip — the 3tiff girlies' guide

okay so bestie ✨ you know how a TIFF file is basically a lil folder full of strips of pixel data? Well TIFFReadRawStrip is the function that hands you one of those strips raw and undecoded — like, straight out of an open TIFF file, no glow-up, no nothing. 💅

It's from the LibTIFF family, and she's a classic. Let's get into it. 🫶

🎀 NAME 🎀

TIFFReadRawStrip — return the undecoded contents of a strip of data from an open TIFF file.

Like literally, the raw tea. No decoding. No filter. Just bytes. 😌

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <tiffio.h>

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

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the vibe: you call this bad girl and she reads the contents of the strip you specified into the data buffer you supplied. Yes, you supply the buffer, she just fills it. Main character energy from both of you honestly. 👑

Now, this is the part where you need to pay attention, because it's lowkey a trap:

The value of strip is a "raw strip number". That means you, the caller, have to take into account whether or not the data is organized in separate planes (PlanarConfiguration = 2). Nobody's gonna do that math for you, bestie. 🧮💀

And to read a full strip of data, your data buffer should typically be at least as big as whatever number TIFFStripSize() hands back. Don't be out here with a tiny buffer and then act surprised. 🙈

💖 RETURN VALUES 💖

  • She returns the actual number of bytes of data that were placed in buf. Iconic, precise, generous. ⭐
  • And if something goes wrong? TIFFReadRawStrip() returns -1. That's the sad path. That's the "it's giving error" path. 😭

🔥 DIAGNOSTICS 🔥

All error messages are directed to the TIFFErrorExtR() routine. Every single one. She doesn't scream into the void, she files a formal complaint. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • TIFFOpen (3tiff)
  • TIFFReadEncodedStrip (3tiff)
  • TIFFReadScanline (3tiff)
  • TIFFstrip (3tiff)
  • libtiff (3tiff)

(the whole friend group, fr fr 🫶)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

LibTIFF contributors — absolute legends, no cap. 🌈

1988-2025, LibTIFF contributors. Yeah, she's been that girl since 1988. Periodt. 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was LibTIFF 4.7, dated Jun 27, 2026, and you just read the whole thing like the icon you are. go read some raw strips. slay. 💅✨🎀

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