"Kevin Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Friday 24 January 2003 23:55, Kevin Myers wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm back once again with my rather extreme requirements, as usual... > > This time, here is the situation: I have roughly 100 very large grayscale > images (up to 600M pixels each) that I need to distribute to some > investors/clients on CD for their use in evaluating engineering projects > that I have proposed. Using various compression techniques, I can > successfully fit these images onto one CD, along with all of the other > information that I need to send out. I will be providing copies of the > same CD to multiple prospective clients for their evaluation. > > But, I have several problems: > > 1. I need a viewing and printing application that can work with very large > TIFF images, which can also be distributed freely to my clients on the same > CD. > > 2. Preferably this application should require little or nothing in the way > of installation. > > 3. Most of these clients are almost certainly running computers with much > less RAM and configured with much less virtual memory than it would take to > load these images into memory for viewing. So, a viewing application that > requires completely loading the image into memory for viewing would almost > certainly be completely out of the question. > > 4. All of these clients are independent shops from my own, and will be > running Windows. I can't ask them to switch or to install some Linux or > Unix variant just to view my images. > > 5. The application must be able to print extremely large images. Since > most printers have very limited page sizes compared to the size of these > images, the application must either support tiling the image to multiple > pages (preferably), or allow a specific portion of the image to be printed. Have you tried OpenOffice? I have no idea if it would work but it's free. You can download it from it's website, openoffice.org. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
