Reading .tif format

Brum Man · 21 May 2008 at 19:36

A friend has just supposedly sent me some revision notes that he said were coming in PDF format. However I've just got home and found them to be in .tif format.

When I open it it opens in photoshop, but it just gives me one page and when scroll down it just zooms in and out, so there doesn't seem to be any more pages.

Is .tif actually a format that can handle files like PDF does, and if so am I using the right thing to read it?

bledd · 21 May 2008 at 20:40

.tif is in image format (high quality)

Brum Man · 21 May 2008 at 21:19

Mmm, that's what I've read so I just thought I might have been missing something :/

Looks like he might have sent me the wrong thing then!

Deanje · 21 May 2008 at 21:51

tiff's can be multi-paged.
Try opening it in Windows Picture and Fax viewer; I think there's a button on the toolbar to let you scroll pages.

Brum Man · 21 May 2008 at 22:39

A ha, cheers! Turns out it's about 60 pages long!

Bit of a rubbish format though isn't it :/

Deanje · 21 May 2008 at 22:55

It's ok, can be quite lightweight for scanned images, which is nice.
Scans at work are around 60kb a page and that's a stupidly large resolution like 2500x4000.