TIFF File Format Specification

A copy of the 6.0 specification is available from the libtiff ftp site at https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/doc/TIFF6.pdf.

Other places are https://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/com16/tiff-fx/docs/tiff6.pdf and https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000022.shtml

Draft DRAFT TIFF Technical Note #2 covers problems with the TIFF 6.0 design for embedding JPEG-compressed data in TIFF, and describes an alternative.

The LibTIFF coverage of the TIFF 6.0 specification is detailed in LibTIFF Coverage of the TIFF 6.0 Specification.

A design for a TIFF variation supporting files larger than 4GB is detailed in BigTIFF Design.

• DRAFT TIFF Technical Note #2
• LibTIFF Coverage of the TIFF 6.0 Specification
• BigTIFF Design
• LibTIFF Coverage of the BigTIFF Specification