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1998.12.21 22:27 "Opening to page "x" in a multi-page TIFF file?", by Theodore J Crackel

How can I open (in a viewer, for example) a multi-page TIFF file to a page
other than the first page?

I am working with images of late-18th century documents.  We have
concatenated all the pages/images of each individual document into a
multi-page file.  In most cases we want to open to the first page, but not
always.  

In some  cases, however, we have more than one letter in a single file.
Letterbooks (where a person copied letters being sent), for example, are
treated a single documents even thought they might contain hundreds of
different letters.  (There are important reasons, that we need not go into
here for doing this.  I'd be glad to discuss the rationale with anyone
interested.)  Some of these letterbooks are quite long (one has over 500
pages/images).  A search-engine, using text files containing information
related to the images, will locate specific letters of interest to the user.
If one of these is a letter recorded in the letterbook, I need to be able to
open the file at the page on which the desired letter occurs.

Thanks,    Ted Crackel

Ted Crackel (tcrackel@po-box.esu.edu)
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
East Stroudsburg University

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