Is there any way for CorelDraw X6 to export very large TIFF files? e.g. greater than 30,000 pixels in each dimension? I am currently running X5 on XP 32-bit and it cannot seem to handle it, even though Photo-Paint appears to have the ability.I finally manage to get our IT guys to give me a Win7 64-bit test machine for me to trial X6 64-bit, but seems to only do marginally better than my X5 installation. The test machine already has 7GB RAM installed plus a very, very large drive.I also had to run the same test on Adobe Illustrator and it was able to deal with this very quickly and smoothly, no troubles at all.You may find it hard to believe, but I actually like using CorelDraw :-), which is so far the standard package for our company, but if I cannot get X6 doing what we want, I'm afraid it's the end of the line.
Hello IBall; I can understand liking Corel better than Adobe. If I couldn't use CorelDraw I would drop back to SignLab to get my work done, It's always best I think to use the tool's that work best for you to get the job done. You may want to consider getting some training aids.
My Thoughts George
In part this is a limitation of the Tiff file spec, which was invented around 1985 in the days when nobody could afford a gigabyte of online file storage and certainly couldn't imagine it using it all on just one document. I remember my first hard disc from about the same time, costing my company about £5000 and having a storage capacity of just 5 Mb.
http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/faq.html#q8 "What is the maximum size of a tiff file":
Corel probably is using signed integers. For an uncompressed Tiff, 2Gb represents an image of around 30000 x 20000 so that sounds about right.
Using signed integers ought to allow an image of up to about 36000 x 36000 (or more in one direction and less in the other) but its not going to gain you a great deal. Nor would it be able to do that on windows XP (which has a maximum file size of 2Gb) and the extra size would have a tremendous drawback -- it would create a tiff file that most other programs were unable to read.
From my practice the way to export files larger than 30000 px is very easy.
Convert the image in CorelDraw to a bitmap with resolution you need. Then just click edit bitmap. CorelDraw will send the bitmap to Photopaint. In PP just click save as and do the rest :)
Wish you luck!
Regards
Nasko Marinov
PS It works with older versions too.
IBall said:Is there any way for CorelDraw X6 to export very large TIFF files? e.g. greater than 30,000 pixels in each dimension?
I seek enlightenment, why do you need such larg tif files?
I tried this on Win7 64-bit with a Trial X6 version.
I'm not sure if I found the same function, it wasn't obvious what you're referring to. I first had to select everything, then covert it to a bitmap (it took a loooong time) and then when I right-click on that object, there is an option to "Edit Bitmap", but it didn't work. It choked up some error about object having to be in registry first or something like that.
One thing I did note, I can export a very wide TIFF (e.g. more than 30,000 pixels), but it can't be very tall in this case. I tried selectively exporting selected objects until it failed. Maybe I'm running into the same issue with the export here.
I am aware that the standard TIFF format normally doesn't support very large image sizes, but I do not have many options for CMYK images. I would hazard a guess that I'm not the only one who has this issue as one of the improvements to Photoshop was to support the very large TIFF sizes. (I'm not sure when the improvement came in, but we have version 7, which does not and CS5, which does). Also, PhotoPaint can seem to handle it, so this is very odd that one member of the suite can and the other cannot.