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<h1 align="center">TIFFWriteScanline</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#NOTES">NOTES</a><br>
<a href="#RETURN VALUES">RETURN VALUES</a><br>
<a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a><br>
<a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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<h2>NAME
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">TIFFWriteScanline
− write a scanline to an open <small>TIFF</small>
file</p>
<h2>SYNOPSIS
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>#include
<tiffio.h></b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>int
TIFFWriteScanline(TIFF *</b><i>tif</i><b>, tdata_t</b>
<i>buf</i><b>, uint32_t</b> <i>row</i><b>, tsample_t</b>
<i>sample</i><b>)</b></p>
<h2>DESCRIPTION
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Write data to a
file at the specified row. The <i>sample</i> parameter is
used only if data are organized in separate planes
(<i>PlanarConfiguration</i>=2). The data are assumed to be
uncompressed and in the native bit- and byte-order of the
host machine. The data written to the file is compressed
according to the compression scheme of the current
<small>TIFF</small> directory (see further below). If the
current scanline is past the end of the current subfile, the
<i>ImageLength</i> field is automatically increased to
include the scanline (except for
<i>PlanarConfiguration</i>=2, where the <i>ImageLength</i>
cannot be changed once the first data are written). If the
<i>ImageLength</i> is increased, the <i>StripOffsets</i> and
<i>StripByteCounts</i> fields are similarly enlarged to
reflect data written past the previous end of image.</p>
<h2>NOTES
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The library
writes encoded data using the native machine byte order.
Correctly implemented <small>TIFF</small> readers are
expected to do any necessary byte-swapping to correctly
process image data with BitsPerSample greater than 8. The
library attempts to hide bit-ordering differences between
the image and the native machine by converting data from the
native machine order.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">In C++ the
<i>sample</i> parameter defaults to 0.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Once data are
written to a file for the current directory, the values of
certain tags may not be altered; see
<i>TIFFSetField</i>(3TIFF) for more information.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">It is not
possible to write scanlines to a file that uses a tiled
organization. The routine <i>TIFFIsTiled</i> can be used to
determine if the file is organized as tiles or strips.</p>
<h2>RETURN VALUES
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>TIFFWriteScanline</i>
returns −1 if it immediately detects an error and 1
for a successful write.</p>
<h2>DIAGNOSTICS
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">All error
messages are directed to the <i>TIFFError</i>(3TIFF)
routine.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>%s: File not
open for writing .</b> The file was opened for reading, not
writing.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Can not
write scanlines to a tiled image</b>. An attempt was made to
write a scanline to a tiled image. The image is assumed to
be organized in tiles because the <i>TileWidth</i> and
<i>TileLength</i> tags have been set with
<i>TIFFSetField</i>(3TIFF).</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Compression
algorithm does not support random access</b>. Data was
written in a non-sequential order to a file that uses a
compression algorithm and that has <i>RowsPerStrip</i>
greater than one. That is, data in the image is to be stored
in a compressed form, and with multiple rows packed into a
strip. In this case, the library does not support random
access to the data. The data should either be written as
entire strips, sequentially by rows, or the value of
<i>RowsPerStrip</i> should be set to one.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>%s: Must set
"ImageWidth" before writing data</b>. The
image’s width has not be set before the first write.
See <b>TIFFSetField</b>(3TIFF) for information on how to do
this.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>%s: Must set
"PlanarConfiguration" before writing data</b>. The
organization of data has not be defined before the first
write. See <b>TIFFSetField</b>(3TIFF) for information on how
to do this.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Can not
change "ImageLength" when using separate
planes</b>. Separate image planes are being used
(<i>PlanarConfiguration</i>=2), but the number of rows has
not been specified before the first write. The library
supports the dynamic growth of an image only when data are
organized in a contiguous manner
(<i>PlanarConfiguration</i>=1).</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>%d: Sample
out of range, max %d</b>. The <i>sample</i> parameter was
greater than the value of the SamplesPerPixel tag.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>%s: No space
for strip arrays .</b> There was not enough space for the
arrays that hold strip offsets and byte counts.</p>
<h2>BUGS
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Writing
subsampled YCbCR data does not work correctly because, for
<i>PlanarConfiguration</i>=2 the size of a scanline is not
calculated on a per-sample basis, and for
<i>PlanarConfiguration</i>=1 the library does not pack the
block-interleaved samples.</p>
<h2>SEE ALSO
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>TIFFOpen</b>(3TIFF),
<b>TIFFWriteEncodedStrip</b>(3TIFF),
<b>TIFFWriteRawStrip</b>(3TIFF), <b>libtiff</b>(3TIFF)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Libtiff library
home page: <b>http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</b></p>
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