John Francis wrote:

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.


Thanks I'm afraid you're right: W-16959 pixels x H-11392 pixels, resolution HxV 400 dpi x 400 dpi, Bit depth 1. Creation Software: Oi/GFS, writer v 00.06.02. I guess this would indicate an uncompressed file size > 200mb. What size windows system would handle a file like this?


Dave



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