TIFF = Tagged Image File Format
The catch is that not every application can read every tag. And that can be
a big issue. For example, CAD scanners are designed to scan 50" wide
documents, and create huge files. Line drawings are commonly stored as CALS
Group 4 formatted files, and those are a type of TIFF that is so uncommon
that they use an extension of CAL. Such files are highly compressed,
allowing 24"x 48" 300dpi scans to fit into a 120 kB file.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format
Simply being a multi-page file doesn't really tell us what the tags might
be. You really want to know what application created the file, because that
is a clue to what tags are enabled. A TIFF file from an Epson flatbed
scanner might be completely different from a Vidar scanner.
Can you tell us what device and software created the file?
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Chuck Hast
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:39 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: [SLUG] multi-page tiff files
Folks,
I am trying to read multi-page tiff files, I have tried a bunch of
apps, most only open the first page, there were a couple that
did show all of the pages but when I tried to zoom in to look
at the diagrams, the lines were very blurry or gone. Has anyone
done mult-page tiff files under Linux?
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