That would be ideal but my tests are not getting at the sub-image.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] convert 'test.tif[1]' thumb.jpg
convert: UnableToReadSubimage `test.tif'

If, in PhotoShop, I use the open dialogue box and browser a folder 
with this image in, it manages to display a small thumbnail in the 
bottom of the dialogue box. It displays a preview for all the images 
in this folder and they are all greater than 50MB. 

These files were last edited by PS. I suspect that these thumbnails 
are embedded somewhere in the file (perhaps the Photoshop 'Image 
Resource Blocks'  private tag) but not readily available to IM. I 
can't image that PS is going to create a thumbnail on-the-fly to 
display a preview in the open dialogue box.

If I query the tags in the TIFF with AsTagviewer it shows the 
PhotoShop block as being a little under 6K. Which is about the 
difference between a image with a saved preview and one without.

Am I making sense? Does that seems possible that there is a sub-image 
that is stored within a private tag? 

Does anyone have any ideas or information about this?
Thanx.
Dp.




On 3 Feb 2006 at 12:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > What I was wondering was was is there some way to directly access
> > the preview image?
> 
> If the preview images exists for each of the TIFF's, sure.  If the
> preview image was the second image of the TIFF, you could say:
> 
>   convert 'image.tif[1]' thumbnail.jpg
> 
> to bypass the large image and just grab the smaller thumbnail.
> 
> If the preview does not exist you could always create one with
> 
>   convert image.tif image-thumbnail.tif
> 
> and only display image-thumbnail.tif.
> 
> JPEG is good for this problem because you can ask specifically for a
> thumbnail of the image and only the thumbail is returned.
> 


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