[Gdal-dev] the command tiffsplit.exe

[Frank Warmerdam]

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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