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Viewers for Large Images?

Posted by Cliff on from the and-we-mean-LARGE dept.

mateub asks: "Before setting off to write something of our own, we have been looking for an image viewer that can deal with large (e.g. 10k by 10k pixel) CMYK TIFF images. Note that this is not necessarily the same thing as saying that the file is large, but usually it will be. A smart program could allocate enough memory to show the 1k by 1k pixels of a normal monitor and read other parts of the file when the user scrolls. Not fast, but functional. We've tried ImageMagick, and it isn't that smart--it runs out of memory even on my 1GB RAM, 4GB swap workstation. It appears The Gimp and xv can't even handle CMYK. Are there any programs that can display these images?"

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  1. xzgv by kraf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    xzgv is the viewer of my choice, it is fast and efficient, it should be able to handle these big files

  2. Large Image Reader by sparkst24 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Check out Remote View. It's a tool designed for really large satellite images, but can be used for a any standard type of image. This tool is optimized for HUGE images upwards of 1GB apiece. I've had a lot of luck with it.

  3. Re:Photoshop on an Apple by mateub · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Boba001 wrote:

    You didn't specify an operating system, price or hardware concerns...

    Sorry, editing error. I mentioned that in my first draft, started to go off on a tangent, deleted the tangent... Anyway:

    Our application runs on Linux, HP-UX and soon, Cygwin on Windows. We have some Apple machines around as well, but most of our users won't, so Apple isn't really an option. Ideally, the viewer would run under the three OS's listed, but we could settle for a different viewer for Windows, for example.

    adéu,
    Mateu

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