Multi page tiff files

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Chris

Hi,
I've just started using Vue Scan and hae discovered this check box for
multi page tiff files.
Can anyone tell me how to create them as I am just getting a load of
seperate files at the moment.
Thanks
 
Chris said:
Hi,
I've just started using Vue Scan and hae discovered this check box for
multi page tiff files.
Can anyone tell me how to create them as I am just getting a load of
seperate files at the moment.
Thanks
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Have you got a "+" symbol at the end of your filename field? That
could be the problem. If so (and in any event), read the User's
Guide|Output page of the help file.
 
What is the purpose of a multipage TIFF file anyway?
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A multi-page TIFF stores 2 (or more) images in a single file. Some
people like this because it adds an additional layer of organization.
With multipage TIFFs, you can have pages 1-50 of a document in
"pages001-050.tif" instead of having "page001.tif page002.tif ...
page050.tif". The file is about 50* the size of one of the 50
constituent single-page images, of course, but so what? NOTE: There may
be a problem with truly gigantic multipage TIFFs, as the directory
offset is stored as a 32-bit signed int. So exercise caution if you're
creating TIFFs close to 2G in size.

Almost all image viewers understand multi-page TIFF, and the tiffutils
from SGI are available for every OS and include "tiffsplit", which can
convert a multipage TIFF into single-page TIFFs. tiffcp can create
multipage TIFFs from single-page TIFFs as well.

We don't use multipage TIFFs at ork very much because our major client
has said they don't want them, but it's pretty easy to grok them and use
them if you so desire. HTH,
 
Dan M said:
What is the purpose of a multipage tif file anyway?
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A good way to keep all of the pages of a document or book in the same image
file.
Or pages of a FAX and other related images.
 
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