It's a stumper. Have you tried opening the file in any other graphics
program? Try Irfanview - freeware ( worth getting anyway) at
Maris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Nitz" <filmscanner@gmx.net>
To: <Filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Cannot open scanned TIFF in Photoshop
| Larry Berman wrote:
|
| > Not knowing what your problem is, I can say that my TIF files are
between
| > 55 and 60 megs on scanning at 4000 PPI. I don't have my scanner turned
on
| > but are there TIF saving options in the software? Might you have set it
| for
| > 200% scaling, which would make the file size twice what it really is?
|
| I used Insight for scanning, and the 55/60 MB size is for scanning 8bit.
Raw
| scanning and scanning 12bit produce twice the file size - around 110MB.
But
| I also scanned at 8 bit and 4000dpi, and PS would not open it.
|
| Stephen Jennings wrote:
|
| > Hope this isn't too simple a suggestion. I discovered that PS won't
open
| > files without the .tif extension.
|
| Well, the files do have the tif extension. Even renaming to TIF does not
| help. The 'magic' size for opening is somewhere between 42,457 (opens) and
| 43,393 (does not open) KB.
|
| I also asked this at the Adobe forum - no response so far. :-(
|
| Maris V. Lidaka asked:
|
| > A shot in the dark - is Insight saving the TIFF as a compressed TIFF?
|
| Then they would always be saved as compressed, right? And none of them
| should open, right?
|
| Barbara
|
