diff --git a/ghostscript-tiff-default-strip-size.patch b/ghostscript-tiff-default-strip-size.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee9f318
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ghostscript-tiff-default-strip-size.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -up ghostscript-8.71/base/gdevtifs.h.tiff-default-strip-size ghostscript-8.71/base/gdevtifs.h
+--- ghostscript-8.71/base/gdevtifs.h.tiff-default-strip-size	2010-03-15 16:42:06.892248676 +0000
++++ ghostscript-8.71/base/gdevtifs.h	2010-03-15 16:42:26.890373466 +0000
+@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ int tiff_print_page(gx_device_printer *d
+  * Sets the compression tag for TIFF and updates the rows_per_strip tag to
+  * reflect max_strip_size under the new compression scheme.
+  */
+-#define TIFF_DEFAULT_STRIP_SIZE 8192
++#define TIFF_DEFAULT_STRIP_SIZE 0
+ 
+ int tiff_set_compression(gx_device_printer *pdev,
+ 			 TIFF *tif,
diff --git a/ghostscript.spec b/ghostscript.spec
index 8d143f5..ef4a85a 100644
--- a/ghostscript.spec
+++ b/ghostscript.spec
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Patch13: ghostscript-ldflags.patch
 Patch14: ghostscript-pdf2dsc.patch
 Patch15: ghostscript-cups-realloc-color-depth.patch
 Patch16: ghostscript-tif-fail-close.patch
+Patch17: ghostscript-tiff-default-strip-size.patch
 
 Requires: urw-fonts >= 1.1, ghostscript-fonts
 BuildRequires: xz
@@ -143,6 +144,9 @@ rm -rf libpng zlib jpeg jasper
 # Don't segfault closing tiffg3 device if opening failed (bug #571520).
 %patch16 -p1 -b .tif-fail-close
 
+# Restore the TIFF default strip size of 0 (bug #571520).
+%patch17 -p1 -b .tiff-default-strip-size
+
 # Convert manual pages to UTF-8
 from8859_1() {
 	iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < "$1" > "${1}_"
@@ -325,6 +329,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %changelog
 * Mon Mar 15 2010 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 8.71-5
+- Restore the TIFF default strip size of 0 (bug #571520).
 - Don't segfault closing tiffg3 device if opening failed (bug #571520).
 - Don't revert gdevcups y-axis change (bug #541604).
 - Reallocate memory in gdevcups when color depth changes (bug #563313).