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Old 14th Jun 2004, 10:22
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Viewing TIFF Files

I have a requirement to view Tiff files which form part of the Airbus CD Rom FCOM. My machine will do this, but the picture it opens seems to be a little more basic than the one which opens on the PCs available for study at work in terms of what you can do with it ie enlarge, rotate etc.

Furthermore, when I visit a particular met site, clicking on Tiff versions of wind charts seems to crash my browser.

A search of this site reveals nothing helpful nor does a google search reveal anything I can understand.

Dell PC, Win xp, AOL, Pentium 3 Ghz, 512Ram, 80Ghz HD, Adobe Acrobat 6.0.

Is there a download that might help?

Many thanks,
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Old 14th Jun 2004, 17:03
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mcdhu,

You could try a free program called:

PicPerk



Another program which is free to try ($40.00 to buy) is:

PMView Pro



Take Care,

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Old 15th Jun 2004, 21:05
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Try Irfanview Viewer its a great program!
One of the mnost popular around.


Keep in mind that a TIFF file is a completely uncompressed format of an image. Very high quality, but also very large file sizes.
Internet Explorer is very unstable, and opening large TIFF files may cause it trouble. If you can, try right clicking on links and 'save target as' and then save those TIFF files to your harddrive, and open them with one of the above mentioned programs. Or be patient with your internet explorer, it will probably open them eventually, but if you start clicking away at things, it will likely crash.
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When you say the picture is more basic do you mean less detailed? You could try checking the colour depth that you are displaying (Control Panel - Display - Settings tab). Go for the highest bit depth it will let you select - it may reduce the screen resolution but you will be able to see whether this improves things. If it does you'll need to find a trade-off between bit depth and screen resolution that serves your immediate needs with the CD-ROM.
 
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Thanks for your contributions Richard,@hris and Spitoon. I have finally made my Tiff images look like the ones at work by downloading a viewer from alternatiff.com. It was what you could do with the image that was lacking, but I now have all the options.

Again, thank you.
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mcdhu,

Glad to hear you are all set!

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