I’ve just been sent a file that is a TIFF. When I open it with Photoshop I can see a single image. However, a colleague printed it out and 6 separate images came out of it. Another product, PicaView says it’s 6@[image_resolution] but doesn’t show me the other 5 pages. This confounds everything I thought I knew about TIFFs, having worked on the fringes of print for 9 years now.
Anyone got any ideas? Furthermore, how can I get to the other pages?
The ones I’ve come across are from a FAX to email. That is, the receiving “fax” was a computer. It stored the multiple page images into a single TIF file.
Search for Imaging for Windows, developed by Kodak, “provided to Microsoft”. It is a free program and will open these multi page TIF files.
We use these all the time for packets of documents, like the digital equivalent of a staple. Imaging for Windows does work well, as does Adobe Acrobat. I did notice (and have been told by others) that Photoshop, which ought to be the be-all, end-all of consumer imaging software, couldn’t see the extra pages. What’s with that?
Thank you. Most elucidating. Sounds like another Microsfot (and Kojak) filetype-hijack.
Imaging, which comes as part of Windows and which was originally by Wang and now by Kodak, has no problem opening them. Just install Imaging from control panel - add/remove programs - windows setup -accessories - details etc