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.TH TIFFSPLIT 1 "September 20, 2005" "libtiff"
.SH NAME
tiffsplit \- split a multi-image
.SM TIFF
into single-image
.SM TIFF
files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tiffsplit
.I src.tif
[
.I prefix
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I tiffsplit
takes a multi-directory (page)
.SM TIFF
file and creates one or more single-directory (page)
.SM TIFF
files from it.
The output files are given names created by concatenating
a prefix, a lexically ordered
suffix in the range [\fIaaa\fP-\fIzzz\fP], the suffix
.I .tif 
(e.g. 
.IR xaaa.tif ,
.IR xaab.tif ,
\...
.IR xzzz.tif ).
If a prefix is not specified on the command line,
the default prefix of
.I x
is used.
.SH OPTIONS
None.
.SH BUGS
Only a select set of ``known tags'' is copied when splitting.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR tiffcp (1),
.BR tiffinfo (1),
.BR libtiff (3TIFF)
.PP
Libtiff library home page:
.BR http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/