ly support TIFF.
    <tt>libtiff</tt> provides no mechanism for controlling the placement
    of data in a file; image data is typically written before directory
    information.
  </p>
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  <h2 id="tiffrgbaimage">TIFFRGBAImage Support</h2>
  <p>
    <tt>libtiff</tt> provides a high-level interface for reading image
    data from a TIFF file.  This interface handles the details of
    data organization and format for a wide variety of TIFF files;
    at least the large majority of those files that one w