Fix Ascii IFD reading as TIFF6.0 spec #1451
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This PR fixes #187
The TIFF6 specification writes:
python-docx by default uses the Value/Offset field as a offset for ASCII IFD, but sometime the Value/Offset field could contain directly the Value (if it contains a string with 4 or less characters including the final NULL byte/string terminator)
This is the case for the 2 pictures linked in issue #187 (the
Software
ASCII field contains8.3
)