Windows Picture and Fax Viewer with tiled TIFFs

[Steve McLellan]

Hi,

I'm experimenting with writing TIFF files using libtiff, specifically
writing tiled TIFFs. Having written what I presume is a valid tiled TIFF
(that opens in Photoshop and on our Mac's email client, amongst other
things), neither Picture or Fax Viewer, or Paint, will open the image. I've
noticed before that Windows isn't able to display EXIF tags attached to TIFF
files (except about 5 very basic tags), so I'm wondering whether Windows'
TIFF support doesn't fully support the standard or whether there's something
I'm doing that won't allow Windows to view it correctly, while other clients
can.

Any light that can be shed on this would be much appreciated.

Steve

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Steve;

You Cannot View TIFF Images Using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329270

Search for...TIFF
http://tinyurl.com/34q54

 

[Steve McLellan]

Hi Wes,

The second link includes a link to a page listing programs that don't open
tiled (NOT multipage) TIFFs in Windows 2000, but that's as far as I could
get. It may be that Microsoft never wrote support for tiled TIFFs because
they thought nobody used them. Be nice to know, and it's a bit annoying they
don't mention it anywhere since I thought my code was wrong when in fact it
was just that Windows couldn't read the output properly.

Thanks for your help,

Steve

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Hi Steve;

Ya got all I know about it. )