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NAME
       TIFFReadScanline - read and decode a scanline of data from an open TIFF
       file

SYNOPSIS
          #include <tiffio.h>

       int TIFFReadScanline(TIFF *tif, tdata_t buf,  uint32_t  row,  tsample_t
       sample)

DESCRIPTION
       Read  the data for the specified row into the (user supplied) data buf-
       fer buf.  The data are returned decompressed and, in the  native  byte-
       and  bit-ordering,  but  are  otherwise packed (see further below). The
       buffer must be large enough to hold an entire scanline of data.  Appli-
       cations should call the routine TIFFScanlineSize() to find out the size
       (in bytes) of a scanline buffer.  The row parameter is always  used  by
       TIFFReadScanline(); the sample parameter is used only if data are orga-
       nized in separate planes (PlanarConfiguration = 2).

NOTES
       The library attempts to hide bit- and byte-ordering differences between
       the  image  and the native machine by converting data to the native ma-
       chine order.  Bit reversal is done if the FillOrder tag is opposite  to
       the  native machine bit order. 16- and 32-bit samples are automatically
       byte-swapped if the file was written with a byte order opposite to  the
       native machine byte order,

       In C++ the sample parameter defaults to 0.

RETURN VALUES
       TIFFReadScanline()  returns  -1  if it detects an error; otherwise 1 is
       returned.

DIAGNOSTICS
       All error messages are directed to the TIFFErrorExtR() routine.

       "Compression algorithm does not support random access":
          Data was requested in a non-sequential order from a file that uses a
          compression  algorithm  and  that has RowsPerStrip greater than one.
          That is, data in the image is 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 ac-
          cessed  sequentially,  or  the file should be converted so that each
          strip is made up of one row of data.

BUGS
       Reading subsampled YCbCR data does not work correctly because, for Pla-
       narConfiguration  =  2,  the  size of a scanline is not calculated on a
       per-sample basis, and for PlanarConfiguration = 1, the library does not
       unpack the block-interleaved samples; use the strip- and tile-based in-
       terfaces to read these formats.

SEE ALSO
       TIFFOpen  (3tiff),   TIFFReadEncodedStrip   (3tiff),   TIFFReadRawStrip
       (3tiff), libtiff (3tiff)

AUTHOR
       LibTIFF contributors

COPYRIGHT
       1988-2023, LibTIFF contributors

4.5                              Nov 23, 2023          TIFFREADSCANLINE(3tiff)

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