diff --git a/src/common/imagtiff.cpp b/src/common/imagtiff.cpp
index 2501e91f3e..59b7fb9b43 100644
--- a/src/common/imagtiff.cpp
+++ b/src/common/imagtiff.cpp
@@ -192,8 +192,42 @@ wxTIFFSeekOProc(thandle_t handle, toff_t off, int whence)
 {
     wxOutputStream *stream = (wxOutputStream*) handle;
 
-    return wxFileOffsetToTIFF(stream->SeekO((wxFileOffset)off,
-                                            wxSeekModeFromTIFF(whence)));
+    toff_t offset = wxFileOffsetToTIFF(
+        stream->SeekO((wxFileOffset)off, wxSeekModeFromTIFF(whence)) );
+
+    if (offset != (toff_t) -1 || whence != SEEK_SET)
+    {
+        return offset;
+    }
+
+
+    /*
+    Try to workaround problems with libtiff seeking past the end of streams.
+
+    This occurs when libtiff is writing tag entries past the end of a
+    stream but hasn't written the directory yet (which will be placed
+    before the tags and contain offsets to the just written tags).
+    The behaviour for seeking past the end of a stream is not consistent
+    and doesn't work with for example wxMemoryOutputStream. When this type
+    of seeking fails (with SEEK_SET), fill in the gap with zeroes and try
+    again.
+    */
+
+    wxFileOffset streamLength = stream->GetLength();
+    if (streamLength != wxInvalidOffset && (wxFileOffset) off > streamLength)
+    {
+       if (stream->SeekO(streamLength, wxFromStart) == wxInvalidOffset)
+       {
+           return (toff_t) -1;
+       }
+
+       for (wxFileOffset i = 0; i < (wxFileOffset) off - streamLength; ++i)
+       {
+           stream->PutC(0);
+       }
+    }
+
+    return wxFileOffsetToTIFF( stream->TellO() );
 }
 
 int TIFFLINKAGEMODE
diff --git a/tests/image/image.cpp b/tests/image/image.cpp
index ae63591d8e..22384f5e1f 100644
--- a/tests/image/image.cpp
+++ b/tests/image/image.cpp
@@ -912,15 +912,8 @@ void CompareImage(const wxImageHandler& handler, const wxImage& image,
         return;
     }
 
-    if (type == wxBITMAP_TYPE_JPEG /* skip lossy JPEG */
-        || type == wxBITMAP_TYPE_TIF)
+    if (type == wxBITMAP_TYPE_JPEG /* skip lossy JPEG */)
     {
-        /*
-        TIFF is skipped because the memory stream can't be loaded. Libtiff
-        looks for a TIFF directory at offset 120008 while the memory
-        stream size is only 120008 bytes (when saving as a file
-        the file size is 120280 bytes).
-        */
         return;
     }