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Thread ID: 41101 2003-12-30 04:59:00 Image viewer for VERY BIG image files Mike (15) Press F1
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204131 2003-12-30 04:59:00 I have a couple of .tif images that I want to view. They're roughly 240mb each. They crash Microsoft Office Picture Manager if I try to open them in that, and they take a minute or so to open in Irfanview.

Is there a program around that specialises in opening and panning etc. large images? I'm only new to Irfanview, but I find it annoying when trying to pan the image (which is 9800x8000).

Thanks,

Mike.
Mike (15)
204132 2003-12-30 06:22:00 press enter within irfanview and it will display the image fullscreen with a rough resize filter...

why dont you use the resample (ctrl + R) to knock it back to 640x480 so that you've got a small version and a large version.. then use the small version for previewing?
whetu (237)
204133 2003-12-30 07:25:00 > why dont you use the resample (ctrl + R) to knock it
> back to 640x480 so that you've got a small version
> and a large version.. then use the small version for
> previewing?

Not really suitable for this image :) and besides, 640x480 is less that 7% of the original size :) you don't get to see much at that size :) even at 1024x768 its small :D

While we're on the subject of Irfanview... It loads this 240mb tif image in about a minute (maybe less), yet a 4mb MrSid image I loaded took closer to 4 minutes :) (mind you, uncompressed the MrSid was also around 240mb).

Cheers,
Mike.
Mike (15)
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