I'm trying to convert large TIFF files (1MB or more) to PDFs. However, any file over 1MB shows up blank, but in the correct image dimension. Anything under 1MB come out fine. The TIFFs are odd dimensions (ex: 2000 x 34000) because they are oil well logs. Does Acrobat have a file limit or dimension limit? Any help would be great.
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Problem converting large TIFFs to PDFs.
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I tried to use Photoshop to crop it down and I got a parsing error. Then I tried to find some third-party image splitters and didn't have much luck. The resolution is 200 x 200. And I mis-typed the dimension in my first post. The dimenisons range from 2000x4000 all the way up to 2000x450000. Thanks.
You shouldn't be getting parsing errors when trying to open TIF files in Photoshop. Parsing errors refer to unreadable file types, and TIFs should certainly not be unreadable in PS. What program was originally used to make these TIFs? When you say the resolution is '200 x 200' do you mean 200 dpi? This is not a particularly high resolution, although if one of the dimensions is really 450000 px, we're talking about images 2250" high (or wide)!!!
I am a little confused about all this - you say you are trying to convert TIFs to PDFs, right? What program are you doing this in?
I am a little confused about all this - you say you are trying to convert TIFs to PDFs, right? What program are you doing this in?
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When I checked the properties of these files the creation software listed was "NeuraScanner!". It is 200x200 dpi and yes, they really are that long. I was trying to use Adobe Acrobat 5.0, which created the blank files. Then I tried a program called Elan Converter and that worked better, but it truncated the file almost at the beginning. Thanks.
Re: I'm trying to convert large TIFF files (1MB or more) to PDFs.
How are you trying to do this?
I think you are missing a step here. You see, I don't think you can open a TIF in Acrobat so you can't use Acrobat to convert a TIF to a PDF directly. It would need to be placed or opened in other some other application first. For example, Pagemaker (although I doubt you could set up a page size that big) or Photoshop. But if you cannot even open it in PS, then there isn't any chance of creating the PDF that way.
Obviously the TIF was created directly from a scan - quite possible, although I don't understand how a scanner could accommodate something that long. Some scanners can save the scan directly as a PDF, but I guess this is of little use to you.
How are you trying to do this?
I think you are missing a step here. You see, I don't think you can open a TIF in Acrobat so you can't use Acrobat to convert a TIF to a PDF directly. It would need to be placed or opened in other some other application first. For example, Pagemaker (although I doubt you could set up a page size that big) or Photoshop. But if you cannot even open it in PS, then there isn't any chance of creating the PDF that way.
Obviously the TIF was created directly from a scan - quite possible, although I don't understand how a scanner could accommodate something that long. Some scanners can save the scan directly as a PDF, but I guess this is of little use to you.
I am somewhat intrigued by what you are trying to do, and so I googled for 'neurascanner' and came up with this:
and the associated PDF which explains you need something called 'NeuraView' rather than trying to PDF them yourself:
and the associated PDF which explains you need something called 'NeuraView' rather than trying to PDF them yourself:
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Thanks for the info! That explains where the awful file lengths came from. I tried to get the NeuraView but the process is longer then the wait at the DMV. I'm waiting for a password from them now. As for Acrobat, the way I was trying it was opening Acrobat first, then going to File, Open as PDF. That didn't work, so I tried viewing the TIFF and printing to the distiller and the PDF Writer, which ruined the resolution. The file formats are TIFFs, but you think they are a special format so you have to use that NeuraView?
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