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| Thread ID: 57580 | 2005-05-06 12:28:00 | Multipage Tiff splitting | Midavalo (7253) | Press F1 |
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| 352796 | 2005-05-10 07:08:00 | I'm surprised people have never seen or heard of multipage TIFF files? A multipage TIFF is exactly that - a TIFF file with multiple pages, with a different image on each page. Much like in Word you can have more than one page, in a multipage TIFF file you can have more than one page. For example, say you have a folder with 20 jpegs in it. You could paste all those images, one per page, into a Word document, so you'd end up with a Word doc with 20 pages. Well with a TIFF file you could also have all those images in the same file, each on a seperate page. I don't have a specific program creating these images - they're created automatically as multipage TIFFs when I scan from the document feeder from the photocopier at work. There is no setting to save the scans into individual files - instead it saves all scanned images into the one TIFF file (or PDF file is the other option). They are scanned through a document feeder, very quickly, and scanning each page one-at-a-time is not an option (it would take far too long). I hope all that makes sense? M. |
Midavalo (7253) | ||
| 352797 | 2005-05-10 08:46:00 | I guess multi page tiffs aren't used much any more. Apparently they used to be quite common in the print industry before PDF. Irfranview (http://irfanview.com/) might do it. It can read multi page tiffs and has batch conversion. I haven't tried it myself because I don't have any multi page images around. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 352798 | 2005-05-10 09:13:00 | What programme opens the multi-page tiff for you, is it the default Windows image viewer? Do you have Photoshop? It should be able to batch convert them or extrat the individual files or as mentioned, the free Irfanview has a pretty comprehensive batch conversion process. You could also try opening the file in Irfanview, select File > Thumbnails > then use the Thumbnails menu to convert the images to separate files (Which the will be anway, you just need to extract them, just as they are separate files in a word doc, it's the process they've been created/saved in and the default viewer that is loading them as multipage. Ther may be a setting on the copier to save as individual files). |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 352799 | 2005-05-10 09:17:00 | I guess multi page tiffs aren't used much any more. Apparently they used to be quite common in the print industry before PDF. Irfranview (http://irfanview.com/) might do it. It can read multi page tiffs and has batch conversion. I haven't tried it myself because I don't have any multi page images around.Ifranview can't do it - the batch conversion only extracts the first page. Couldn't find any info in their that'd allow me to extract more pages (apart from saving each page one-by-one). M. |
Midavalo (7253) | ||
| 352800 | 2005-05-10 09:21:00 | What programme opens the multi-page tiff for you, is it the default Windows image viewer? Do you have Photoshop? It should be able to batch convert them or extrat the individual files or as mentioned, the free Irfanview has a pretty comprehensive batch conversion process. You could also try opening the file in Irfanview, select File > Thumbnails > then use the Thumbnails menu to convert the images to separate files (Which the will be anway, you just need to extract them, just as they are separate files in a word doc, it's the process they've been created/saved in and the default viewer that is loading them as multipage. Ther may be a setting on the copier to save as individual files).It is a Windows Image viewer - Windows imager or something like that. Photoshop doesn't appear to recognise multipage tiffs. Paint Shop Pro does open them, and displays them all as individual pages, I just need to click Save for each image (takes ages when there are a lot of them, but its quicker than extracting each one one-by-one). However we don't have a spare PSP license, so am looking for free or cheaper alternatives before forking out for another license. M. |
Midavalo (7253) | ||
| 352801 | 2005-05-10 11:40:00 | Ok, Windows Imager aka Kodak Image viewer, or some such, which used to display the old MS Fax and Windows Messaging fax pages as tiff's, multipage if necessary (it all comes creeping back to me). I'm not in Windows at the mo and very rusty on that one, I wonder if you could try different programmes "Open as" or "Save as" command until you strick one that gives an option to save as indicidual pages. You might just strike the first image saved as X as you have done before. |
Murray P (44) | ||
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