tiffsplit(1)

tiffsplit1

Split a multi-image tiff into single-image tiff files

Usage

tiffsplit src.tif [prefix]

Overview

tiffsplit takes a multi-directory (page) TIFF file and creates one or more single-directory (page) TIFF files from it. The output files are given names created by concatenating a prefix, a lexically ordered suffix in the range [aaa--zzz], the suffix .tif (e.g. xaaa.tif, xaab.tif, …, xzzz.tif). If a prefix is not specified on the command line, the default prefix of x is used.

Options

None.

Exit status

tiffsplit exits with one of the following values:

0:

Success

1:

An error occurred either reading the input or writing results.

Releases

17 releases since Debian 1.2 (Rex); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 1.2–1.3
  2. 2.0–2.1
  3. 2.2–3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0–6.0
  7. 7–8
  8. 9
  9. 10–11
  10. 12
  11. 13

Bugs

Only a select set of "known tags" are copied when splitting.

Author

LibTIFF contributors

From libtiff-tools 4.7.0-3+deb13u3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.