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.
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.