Had anyone ever had any problem with TIFFS taking forever to load? I have tried different viewers and am now using Irfanview, but the problem is still there.
I have seen some Tiff files that were huge. It could take several minutes to open or they might even crash your system. I'd use Windows Explorer to check the size of the file being opened. If it isn't all that big, that indicates other issues with the computer.
Hope that helps. Have a great day.
Larry P
I've had some aerial photos take a while to load when they were particularly large in file size.
Sometimes a corrupted file will act like it is loading, but doesn't ever seem to get there. I've had to go back and download a couple of images again in order to fix that issue.
I have loaded about 200 images all around 20MB into [REDACTED] so that I could create a single image background. That took a very very long time - several hours.
We have two plotter/scanners in the back room. One scans into PDF files and the other into TIFs.
TIF files of the same document are much larger, and take a ton of time.
The only time I use that one is when the PDF machine is down.
Also, FWIW, I have both Firefox and IE on my work computer. The Firefox PDF reader (Foxit) is much slower than the Adobe reader on IE.
I'm trying to look at three and four page deeds.
I'm doing office work since the weather is nasty.
If you want to e-mail the deeds to me, I'll see if I can open them on my software.
3-4 page deeds should not be that big of a file.
If you do a search on the internet for "Tiff to Pdf" You can download a file converter. Our local county let's you download deeds into tiff. I convert them to pdf before I even open them.
a client hipped me to this one just yesterday. it is good. opens quick and then you can print to pdf.
by the way a tiff would cripple my system before i switched to this.
Ditto on the email to me. I've only had issues with the large aerials but never deeds. I also use Irfanview.
It's not a single deed.
It's every deed.
They are tiff files and they take forever to load, well not forever, but up to 3 and 4 minutes.
Go back and read the first word of the second line. Hint. It's capitalised and it starts with "I".
If you are getting these deeds directly from a Register of Deeds website and not off your local hard drive, my guess is they have two issues at work.
1. Large files. This is the norm for many R-o-D's offices in this area. It makes sense they wanted to not lose any detail when documents were scanned so they tended to scan at high resolution and created really large files.
2. Slow connection (or very high traffic) between the office with the data and the Internet.
I know that doesn't help much, but it might explain a thing or two.
Larry P
> Go back and read the first word of the second line. Hint. It's capitalised and it starts with "I".
My bad bro. Trying to read and eat lunch at the same time. No help from me I guess.
Once they open, try right-click and saving it to your HD. If that works, how big is the file?
Or, if you are downloading from the internet, post the link, and I'll give it a try.
For large image files I use Tatuk-GIS, a free application/viewer that also handles shape files and many other formats.
Tommy, are you opening these TIFFs via the internet, or off a disk or HD? As strange as it sounds, I just had a similar problem downloading TIFFs off the internet. I have TIFFs set to open in a 3rd party viewer (PixWizard), after download.
These were from a site that I've always known to be pretty quick, but Tiffs were taking 2 or 3 minutes to open, and sometimes giving error messages. My computer expert friend suggested I tried opening the TIFF in Firefox instead of IE, and they all downloaded and opened in seconds ... can't explain why. It seems like the 3rd party viewer and IE were not playing well together.