Declaration
property TIFF_ByteOrder: TIOByteOrder;
Description
Returns the byte order of the current TIFF image.
TIFF files use two byte orders:
◼ioLittleEndian: Little-endian used by Intel processors (indicated by "II" as the first two bytes of the file header)
◼ioBigEndian: Big-endian used by Motorola (indicated by "MM" as the first two bytes of the file header)
Due to the widespread use of Intel-based systems, where little-endian is the native format, ioLittleEndian is much more common.
This property is read-only because ImageEn always uses ioLittleEndian when saving TIFF files.
It is useful when using
InsertTIFFImageFile or
InsertTIFFImageStream to merge two tiff images without decoding them, because both TIFF files must have matching byte orders.