TIFFWRITERAWSTRIP(3tiff)

💖 TIFFWRITERAWSTRIP 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the 3tiff girlies club ✨ this one's from LibTIFF and it's literally the "just dump the raw bytes in there" function. no encoding, no drama, no thoughts. let's go 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

TIFFWriteRawStrip — write a strip of raw data to an open TIFF file

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <tiffio.h>

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically? you append size bytes of raw data to the strip you picked. that's it. that's the whole vibe. no encoding, no glow-up, just raw bytes going straight in 💅

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💜 NOTES 💜

the strip number has to actually be valid according to whatever the ImageLength and RowsPerStrip tags are currently set to, no cap. if you're feeling chaotic, you can grow an image dynamically by bumping up ImageLength before each and every call to TIFFWriteRawStrip(). very main character of you 🫶

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🔥 RETURN VALUES 🔥

-1 comes back if something went wrong 😭. otherwise you get size right back at you. slay.

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🌈 DIAGNOSTICS 🌈

every single error message gets sent to the TIFFErrorExtR() routine. here's the whole roster:

• %s: File not open for writing: — the file was opened for reading, not writing. girl, wrong mode 💀
• Can not write scanlines to a tiled image: — the image is assumed to be organized in tiles because the TileWidth and TileLength tags have been set with TIFFSetField(). pick a lane 🧚
• %s: Must set "ImageWidth" before writing data: — the image's width hasn't been set before the first write. see TIFFSetField() for info on how to do this.
• %s: Must set "PlanarConfiguration" before writing data: — the organization of data hasn't been defined before the first write. see TIFFSetField() for info on how to do this.
• %s: No space for strip arrays": — there wasn't enough space for the arrays that hold strip offsets and byte counts. (yes, that trailing quote is in the original, iykyk 😭)
• %s: Strip %d out of range, max %d: — the strip you specified is not a valid strip according to the currently specified image dimensions. bestie that strip does not exist 💅

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• TIFFOpen (3tiff)
• TIFFWriteEncodedStrip (3tiff)
• TIFFWriteScanline (3tiff)
• libtiff (3tiff)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

LibTIFF contributors 🫶 iconic of them honestly

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

1988-2025, LibTIFF contributors

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this is from LibTIFF 4.7, dated Jun 27, 2026, and it's the TIFFWRITERAWSTRIP(3tiff) manual page 💖 go write some raw strips, you absolute legend 🌸✨