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.
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 have a printer which is capable of up to 600 DPI and is capable of handling media over 2000 mm long, so if you work that out, it's over 30000 pixels.
I know, a lot of people are going to say "Well, if you're printing something that big, you don't need to print at that resolution, nobody is ever going to see it". This is true if it's a large banner hung on the side of a building 5 stories up. Well unfortunately I can't go into detail about what I'm doing, but I actually have a requirement in some cases to precisely place pixels in specific positions at that resolution.
Here's one hypothetical application:
I'm doing a very long mural designed to hang on a wall next to the sidewalk. In this case, the viewers will walk by and be viewing the image from very close up so we need good resolution & image quality, but at the same time it is very long and needs to be seamless so we do not want to stitch together multiple prints.
IBall said:I have a printer which is capable of up to 600 DPI
Test your printer it will only need between 150 to 200 PPI for the best quality. I do this type of work all the time. We've done work up to 100 feet
Well I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to disclose which printer it is, but it is not a "one-off" special, it is a production quality machine and there are many out in the field from more than one manufacturer.
There is no print mode on this particular printer which is below 300 DPI, the RIP software for this printer will not let you go below that. There are ways to work around it, but I can assure you, if we were to try something lower, the results would look like garbage. Maybe this is hard for you to believe, but I again point to what Adobe did with Illustrator & PhotoShop. They saw that it was worth the effort to add this ability to handle extra large TIFF's to their software, so obviously somebody is asking for it. They don't put in stuff just for fun.
Maybe it depends on who is looking at the images. When I first started in this business, everything looked great. But after some time, you start to see all sorts of image artifacts everywhere and differences between print modes with differing resolutions & print schemes becoming blindingly obvious...
Regardless, I'm still stuck with the original problem. I need to generate very large TIFF files, CorelDraw seems to choke up on that.