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What libraries support TIFF?

April 26, 2017Libraries support TIFF

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What libraries support TIFF?

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The number one TIFF library is LibTiff. It was originally conceived by Sam Leffler, and has more recently been maintained by Frank Warmerdam and Andrey Kiselev. It’s free and open source, and is properly supported in the TIFF and LibTiff mailing list. Little cms, a free color management engine by Marti Maria, includes a small utility ‘tifficc’ that links together LibTiff and the color management engine. It basically applies profile chains to TIFF files, and can also be used for such things as converting from RGB TIFF to CMYK TIFF, or working with other TIFF colorspaces like Lab, YCbCr,… There are other TIFF implementations. Python Imaging Library contains a TIFF implementation in pure Python. There are many write-only implementations; it is relatively easy to make a program writing a particular TIFF flavor (that was one of the format design goals). If your company has a commercial imaging product that supports TIFF properly, and you wish for a link in this section, drop us a line.