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For anyone needing to view Tiff drawings and to zoom in on them, pan, rotate, and print them, I did some Web research and came across what I think to be the best of them all. And, the best part is that it is FREE.

Go to http://www.bravaviewer.com/ and download the Brava Reader that is the first icon to come up on that home page.

Hello David,

I really like IrfanView, as it will do this for TIFF's, and just about every other graphics file in existence!

Neil,

Good to know about Iranview. I used to use that program as my digital photo viewer back about 5 or so years ago when it first came out. Didn't know it had improved to also serve as a good viewer of Tiff files. I will download it and check it out.

Thanks.

Neil,

I did try out Irfanview for viewing tiffs. I find it a little "stiff" in its controls abilities for panning, zooming, rotating the image, and clarity of the viewed image. The Brava Reader that I posted about, I think, provides about the easiest tools for zipping around and zoomed in on a tiff and at the highest clarify of any tiff viewer that I have found.

To each his own, I suppose.

David is right, here. I tried the Brava Reader after using IrfanView for Tiff's and it is indeed far superior for that file type.

As an added note, the latest version of IrfanView includes a separate application: IrfanView Thumbnails. This greatly improves on the viewing of multiple images in a folder and the creation of "contact sheets." Highly recommended - and free.

This is slightly off topic of this thread, but does anyone know how to suppress the display of tiff files in the Windows XP Common Task area, under the Details picture preview area, and also for thumbnail views?

We use Oce ReproDesk 4.30 to convert our pdf files into tiffs for our printshop. The tiff files have such large dimensions, windows explorer freaks out if we highlight a single tiff file while in any icon view other than thumbnail, the window will crash. If we select multiple files it suppresses the display and it's fine. If the icon display is set to thumbnail the window will automatically lock up.

Philip Hart wrote:As an added note, the latest version of IrfanView includes a separate application: IrfanView Thumbnails. This greatly improves on the viewing of multiple images in a folder and the creation of "contact sheets." Highly recommended - and free.

FWIW ... I've been using the thumbnails and creating contact sheets (index pages w/ thumbnail pics, file names, headers, and footers ... all customizable) for a few years ... so I think the thumbnails have actually been around awhile.

IrfanView also has plugins for additional photo editing, multi-media, slide shows, etc. It seems that I am always finding something new that I can do with the program.

I hate to sound a bit naive, but what are Tiff drawings?

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is a file format used mainly for storing raster images. It is generally considered the standard format for storing high color-depth images.

Dave

Steve Baldwin wrote:FWIW ... I've been using the thumbnails and creating contact sheets (index pages w/ thumbnail pics, file names, headers, and footers ... all customizable) for a few years ... so I think the thumbnails have actually been around awhile.

IrfanView also has plugins for additional photo editing, multi-media, slide shows, etc. It seems that I am always finding something new that I can do with the program.

Yes, the thumbnails and contact sheet functions have been in IrfanView forever. I meant to be saying that they are greatly improved in the latest version (I'm using v3.97 of IrfanView).

Josh wrote:

We use Oce ReproDesk 4.30 to convert our pdf files into tiffs for our printshop.

You might want to have youor printshop get in touch with Oce. About 5 years ago, Oce came out with a PDF driver for their machines to accept straight PDF files and print them out. I send my unaltered PDF files to three different repro shops and they all use Oce equipment and they all now have the PDF driver for Oce so I don't have to do any conversions to Tiff or any other format. The printing quality I get back is really crisp looking.

Thanks for the reply David. Our print shop has the capability to process the PDF's directly, but the processing takes quite a while for them, and slows them down. We process them here for them as a background task. The Processed tiffs also compress down smaller than the pdfs for the electronic transfer. It's one of those we'll scratch their back if they scratch ours kind of deals. Thanks again for the helpful thinking