The contrib directory has contributed software that
uses the TIFF library or which is associated with the library
(typically glue and guidance for ports to non-UNIX platforms, or tools that
aren't directly TIFF related).
contrib/vms
scripts and files from Karsten Spang for building
the library and tools under VMS
contrib/dbs
various tools from Dan & Chris Sears, including a simple X-based viewer
contrib/ras
two programs by Patrick Naughton for converting
between Sun rasterfile format and TIFF (these
require libpixrect.a, as opposed to the one in
tools that doesn't)
contrib/mac-mpw
scripts and files from Niles Ritter for building
the library and tools under Macintosh/MPW C.
contrib/acorn
scripts and files from Peter Greenham for building
the library and tools on an Acorn RISC OS system.
contrib/win32
scripts and files from Scott Wagner for building
the library under Windows NT and Windows 95.
contrib/dosdjgpp
scripts and files from Alexander Lehmann for building
the library under MSDOS with the DJGPP v2 compiler.
contrib/tags
scripts and files from Niles Ritter for adding private
tag support at runtime, without changing libtiff.
contrib/mfs
code from Mike Johnson to read+write images in memory
without modifying the library
contrib/pds
various routines from Conrad Poelman; a TIFF image iterator and
code to support ``private sub-directories''
contrib/iptcutil
A utility by Bill Radcliffe to
convert an extracted IPTC Newsphoto caption from a binary blob to
ASCII text, and vice versa. IPTC binary blobs can be extracted from
images via the ImageMagick convert(1)
utility.
Questions regarding these packages are usually best directed toward
their authors.