Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

Tue Jan 27 01:55:40 PST 2009

That's a stupid Engineering Department. Maybe they should learn
something about engineering -- or just leave the company. ;-)

Even Boeing, when they were distributing CGM graphic with some of
their documentation around 1996, they had these sometimes bundled into
one file to save space. They had the decency to ship a script and
instructions to split the file. So should your ED. Absolutely. Or,
rather do the splitting or changing to pdf themselves.

Not being able to choose a certain tiff page is not a bug in FM. It is
only lack of features. You cannot have everything in one application.

There is a number of apps that can split tiffs out there, some are
expensive some are inexpensive, some even free. Years ago I used the
GPL tiff2pdf utility (console utility, or command line utility as it
is probably called by Windows/DOS enthusiasts). It is very fast and
effective. It will just read the tiff file and output a pdf file. See:
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/man/tiff2pdf.1.html

Best regards,

Bodvar Bjorgvinsson

2009/1/26 Richard Melanson <rmelanson at spirecorp.com>:
> An update or maybe a summation :-)
> The TIFF files I have been referring to are controlled by our
> Engineering Department. I reach out to a network drive and import by
> reference the TIFFs Engineering makes available. I cannot do anything to
> the TIFFs but import them! So unless I can find a way for Framemaker to
> see all the pages in the TIFF files, I am dead in the water.
>
> Thank you all for the great suggestions, lets hope someone can pull the
> rabbit out of the TIFF, aahhh, I mean hat!!  :-)
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Owen, Clint
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 5:53 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??
>
> Some of our older scanned documents are multi-page TIFFs. I keep a copy
> of Paperport Deluxe (version 7.0, that came with a long gone scanner) on
> my computer solely because it can split these files into individual
> graphics.
>
> Clint
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan
> Litchfield
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 1:04 PM
> To: Art Campbell
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com; Richard Melanson
> Subject: Re: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??
>
> Multi-page tiffs are pretty common really.
>
> I remember replying to this, so I am not certain why it has come up
> again. But anyway I suggested opening the tiff in an application that
> supports multi-page tiffs (probably *not* Photoshop) and print the file
> to PDF (press-quality settings if you want to print it). This produces a
> multi-page PDf which can be easily imported into FM.
>
> Alan
>
> Art Campbell wrote:
>> Richard,
>> I think you may have uncovered a rare bug. I hadn't ever seen a
>> multi-page TIF before... and I bet the coders hadn't either. I'd
>> expect Frame to treat it as a multi-page PDF and prompt you to select
> which page to display.
>>
>> May be worth opening a bug on it.
>>
>> The only work-around I can suggest is to either cut the TIF into
>> single pages with something like Photoshop or create a PDF from it, so
>
>> you can select which page to display.
>>
>> Art
>>
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>>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Richard Melanson
>> <rmelanson at spirecorp.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I posted this yesterday and was just wondering if anyone received it,
>
>>> thank you.
>>>
>>> Hello Framers,
>>>
>>> I have spent the last couples of hours trying to find an answer to
>>> this question. I am importing by reference TIFFs into a Framemaker 8
> file.
>>> The TIFFs are a single file with multiple pages, but Frame is only
>>> importing the first page. What am I missing here, I sure hope this is
>
>>> not embarrassingly easy answer. Thank you for any help you can give
> me.
>>>
>>> Rick
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