Segmentation fault in tiffsplit

[nudayasankar]

Hi,
I'm getting 'Segmentation fault' error with the below warnings when using tiffsplit.

nudayasankar:~/tiff-4.0.3> tiffsplit ~/BROKEN\ TIF.tif
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, /home/nudayasankar/BROKEN TIF.tif: unknown field with tag 327 (0x147) encountered.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, /home/nudayasankar/BROKEN TIF.tif: unknown field with tag 328 (0x148) encountered.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, /home/nudayasankar/BROKEN TIF.tif: unknown field with tag 59932 (0xea1c) encountered.
Segmentation fault

Tag 59932 is not available in the list of TIFF tags given here http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/form ... tags.shtml

Tried with both 4.0.3 and 3.8.2 versions of LIBTIFF

I have found the following solution when I googled .
The solution is to purge such extra fields with simple command:

convert xxxx.tif yyyy.tiff

This command invokes the ImageMagic's convert tool and does nothing but copy image from xxxx.tif file to the yyyy.tif file. The error message will be displayed, but it can be ignored in this case. The yyyy.tif file can be then processed with the negfix8 script


Can someone help me to understand the meaning of tag 59932? Is the 'Segmentation fault' because of tag 59932?

Thanks
Uday

[snibgo]

Private (or any unknown) tags shouldn't cause software to fail. tiffsplit isn't part of ImageMagick.