[Gdal-dev] the command tiffsplit.exe

[Zhonghai Wang]

Frank,

thanks for your feedback, so it's not used for image tiling.

kind regards

zhonghai


On 7/6/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Zhonghai Wang wrote:
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > I noticed that there is a command "tiffsplit.exe" in the folder
> > \FWTools1.0.4\bin, I've played a little bit with this command, but I can
> > not realize what this really is used for. Does this command do exactly
> > the same things like the -co "TILED=YES" when performing the gdal
> commands?
> >
> > I have now about 200 tifs, and each is 8750*6000 pixels, so if the
> > tiffsplit does the internal tile thing, it will be perfect for me.
>
> Zhonghai,
>
> TIFFs may contain multiple images in one file.  Often each image is a page
> in a fax or something similar.  The tiffsplit program splits each image
> out
> into a seperate file.
>
> So, no, it won't help you in breaking images into smaller files, nor in
> making them internally tiled.
>
> Best regards,
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