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<h1 align="center">TIFFDEFERSTRILEARRAYWRITING</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#RETURNS">RETURNS</a><br>
<a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a><br>
<a href="#NOTE">NOTE</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
<a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><br>
<a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a><br>
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<h2>NAME
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">TIFFDeferStrileArrayWriting
− defer strile array writing</p>
<h2>SYNOPSIS
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<pre style="margin-left:15%; margin-top: 1em">#include <tiffio.h></pre>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>int
TIFFDeferStrileArrayWriting(TIFF *tif) <br>
int TIFFForceStrileArrayWriting(TIFF *tif)</b></p>
<h2>DESCRIPTION
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b><i>TIFFDeferStrileArrayWriting()</i></b>
is an advanced writing function that must be used in a
particular sequence, and generally together with
<i>TIFFForceStrileArrayWriting()</i>, to achieve its
intended effect. Their aim is to control when and where the
<b>StripOffsets</b> / <b>StripByteCounts</b> or
<b>TileOffsets</b> / <b>TileByteCounts</b> arrays are
written into the file.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The purpose of
this is to generate 'cloud−optimized geotiff' files
where the first KB of the file only contain the IFD entries
without the potentially large strile arrays. Those are
written afterwards.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">More precisely,
when TIFFWriteCheck() is called, the tag entries for those
arrays will be written with type = count = offset = 0 as a
temporary value.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Its effect is
only valid for the current directory, and before
TIFFWriteDirectory() is first called, and will be reset when
changing directory.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The typical
sequence of calls is:</p>
<pre style="margin-left:15%; margin-top: 1em">TIFFOpen()
/* or TIFFCreateDirectory(tif) */
/* Set fields with calls to TIFFSetField(tif, ...) */
TIFFDeferStrileArrayWriting(tif)
TIFFWriteCheck(tif, ...)
TIFFWriteDirectory(tif)
/* ... potentially create other directories and come back to the above directory */
TIFFForceStrileArrayWriting(tif) /* emit the arrays at the end of file */</pre>
<h2>RETURNS
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">1 in case of
success, 0 otherwise.</p>
<h2>DIAGNOSTICS
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">All error
messages are directed to the TIFFErrorExtR() routine.
Likewise, warning messages are directed to the
TIFFWarningExtR() routine.</p>
<h2>NOTE
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">This
functionality was introduced with libtiff 4.1.</p>
<h2>SEE ALSO
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>libtiff</i>
(3tiff)</p>
<h2>AUTHOR
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">LibTIFF
contributors</p>
<h2>COPYRIGHT
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">1988-2025,
LibTIFF contributors</p>
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