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.TH TIFFDataWidth 3TIFF "September 12, 2002" "libtiff"
.SH NAME
TIFFDataWidth \- Get the size of TIFF data types
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B "#include <tiffio.h>"
.sp
.BI "int TIFFDataWidth(TIFFDataType " type ")"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I TIFFDataWidth
returns a size of
.I type
in bytes.
Currently following data types are supported:
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.I TIFF_BYTE
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.I TIFF_ASCII
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.I TIFF_SBYTE
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.I TIFF_UNDEFINED
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.I TIFF_SHORT
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.I TIFF_SSHORT
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.I TIFF_LONG
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.I TIFF_SLONG
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.I TIFF_FLOAT
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.I TIFF_IFD
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.I TIFF_RATIONAL
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.I TIFF_SRATIONAL
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.I TIFF_DOUBLE
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.SH "RETURN VALUES"
.br
.IR TIFFDataWidth
returns a number of bytes occupied by the item of given type. 0 returned when
uknown data type supplied.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR libtiff (3TIFF),
.PP
Libtiff library home page:
.BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/