Yes, I did this, but not even GIMP recognises such multi-page files.

On a related matter, judging from
https://linux.die.net/man/3/tiffsetdirectory, there should be a way to
not need to tamper with TIFFTAG_SUBIFD, i.e. using TIFFReadDirectory
sequentially. In fact, it was the approach we were using up to now.

That brings me a few questions to mind:

- Does anyone know if that's the intended use of TIFFReadDirectory? If
so, wasn't the function intended to seek into the next directory on its own?
- Alternatively, are we supposed to use TIFFSetSubdirectory before each
TIFFReadDirectory? (getting the offsets with TIFFGetField)

Best,

amyspark

On 09/12/2022 10:52, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello amyspark,
> 
> My understanding is that you set the magic TIFFTAG_SUBIFD tag on a
> directory with an $n element array of offsets, all initialized to 0,
> and then the next $n TIFF directories you write will appear as
> subdirectories of this directory, with the offsets filled in for you.
> 
> Or that's what I did here and it seems to work for me:
> 
> https://github.com/libvips/libvips/blob/master/libvips/foreign/vips2tiff.c#L2127-L2141
> 
> John
> 
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 12:26, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> The page I followed when implementing TIFF subframe writing is:
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11959617/in-a-tiff-create-a-sub-ifd-with-thumbnail-libtiff
>>
>> HTH
>> Paavo
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tiff <[email protected]> On Behalf Of L. E. Segovia via Tiff
>> Sent: reede, 9. detsember 2022 03:29
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Tiff] How to write multi-file TIFFs
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm writing to ask about how to create a TIFF with multiple sub-images.
>> Our writing code at Krita is unable to create this kind of files, creation 
>> fails with these lines logged:
>>
>>> krita.file: "TIFFLinkDirectory: Error fetching directory count"
>>> krita.file: "TIFFRewriteDirectory: Error fetching directory count"
>>
>> A breakpoint on the TIFF error writing routine shows that both are issued 
>> the moment I call TIFFWriteDirectory for the second and further layers. 
>> TIFFCreateDirectory, which I saw suggested in tif_overview.c, does not have 
>> an effect here.
>>
>> Does anyone know the correct incantations to create this kind  of files?
>> I'm running LibTiff 4.4.0 at present.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> amyspark
>>
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