TIFFDataWidth

Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (3TIFF)
Updated: September 12, 2002
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NAME

TIFFDataWidth - Get the size of TIFF data types  

SYNOPSIS

#include <tiffio.h>

int TIFFDataWidth(TIFFDataType type)  

DESCRIPTION

TIFFDataWidth returns a size of type in bytes. Currently following data types are supported:
TIFF_BYTE
TIFF_ASCII
TIFF_SBYTE
TIFF_UNDEFINED
TIFF_SHORT
TIFF_SSHORT
TIFF_LONG
TIFF_SLONG
TIFF_FLOAT
TIFF_IFD
TIFF_RATIONAL
TIFF_SRATIONAL
TIFF_DOUBLE
 

RETURN VALUES


TIFFDataWidth returns a number of bytes occupied by the item of given type. 0 returned when uknown data type supplied.  

SEE ALSO

libtiff(3TIFF),

Libtiff library home page: http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/