ys said, that
    <em>a correct TIFF
    reader must handle images in big-endian and little-endian byte order</em>.
    <tt>libtiff</tt> conforms in this respect.
    Consequently there is no means to force a specific
    byte order for the data written to a TIFF image file (data is
    written in the native order of the host CPU unless appending to
    an existing file, in which case it is written in the byte order
    specified in the file).
  </p>
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  <h2 id="dataplacement">Data Placement</h2>
  <p>