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2004.02.09 20:18 "Re: Photoshop 8.0 and libtiff", by Chris Cox
At 2:42 PM -0500 2/9/04, Don Ellis wrote: > Thank you for responding so quickly! > > You are going to love this. Currently, I need to be able to handle TIFF > images up to 4 GB and in the near future I am sure I will need to work with > larger images. My company prints 4 color billboards up to 63 feet by 32 > feet, the project I am working is for printing 360 dpi up to that size. I > have printed images derived from 2 GB to 4 GB TIFF images before. These > images were created in Photoshop 7.0 (with the 2 GB file limit) and then > strung together with some propriety software which used one data line per > strip. We were hoping that Photoshop 8.0/CS on the G5 would eliminate a > step. In the near future I am going to need TIFF files up to 8 GB and maybe > larger. So I am going to have to work on a 64 bit version of libtiff. But you won't get them -- TIFF has a 4 Gig hard limit (because of the 32 bit length/offset values). Anything over 4 Gig will need a different file format. Chris