Dave Sprinkle mused: > > Hi, > > I've been trying to work with a TIF file~650K, that is a blueprint > of 1 floor of our Physics building. 1 computer I'm trying to use is > a 1G AMD Athalon, with 768 mb ram, running XP Pro. I've been trying > to open the file with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. The file does > open but extremely slowly, and it is imposible to do anything after > it is open. Eventually the program locks up and I have to give up. > > I also tried PSP 9 on another computer with the same luck. Am I missing > something?
I'd assume a blueprint is probably a monochrome image. Even there, though, 650K bytes would be less than 6MP; that should be an easy fit into your machine. But it's probable that the TIFF file is compressed - if you've got a copy of tiffinfo (or can find one on the web, see what the actual image dimensions are. I'd bet it's really a lot larger than 2K x 3K or so; large enough that your machine has problems with it. Don't forget that your machine is going to want 32 bits for each pixel, even if the image file only has one bit/pixel.
