Open a Multi-Page Tiff File Using Adobe Acrobat + Photoshop
Doing anything productive with a multi page tiff document is difficult. Windows Picture Viewer does a great job at displaying and printing the multiple page tiff but that is where the productivity ends. I had scanned an article using a multi function copy/san/print machine which scans documents to email. This one happend to scan the document to a multiple page tiff. Some quick looking on the interwebs found a few tiff splitting programs. One of which I found for free on download.com and which crashed with no functionality.
Here is my hack for splitting a multiple page tiff into single images. Warning, this is ugly but functional. First off you must have Adobe Acrobat PDF Creator and some kind of image editor.
1) Right Click on the Multi-Page .Tiff Document and Select Convert to Adobe PDF
2) Open the created PDF File.
3) Using the Graphic Select Tool Draw a Square around one of the Pages
4) Select Copy from the Edit Menu or press Control-C (Apple-C on a Mac)
5) Paste this into your graphic editor of choice
6) Rinse and Repeat for the other pages in yoru Multi-Page Tiff
I am not sure why Adobe Acrobat Creator understands Multiple Page Tiffs and Adobe Photoshop doesn’t but this hack at least worked for me. If you know how to get to the extra pages using just Adobe Photoshop or even the CorelDraw suite then let me know.
6 Responses to “Open a Multi-Page Tiff File Using Adobe Acrobat + Photoshop”
August 8th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Thanks Ron, I downloaded IrfanView and tried it on my next Multi-Page Tiff document and it worked like a charm. The up and down arrows are a little difficult to see because of their graphics but everything works as advertised!
I highly recommend IrfanView for your multi-page Tiff needs.
August 30th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I always use xnview, it handles multipage tiff’s liek a dream, and i can also extract all pages of one into a dirm or make a multipage tiff from several files.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I have a simple solution rather than going in the editors.
Open the Multipage TIFF in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
File > Save As… abc.PDF
Open the File in Adobe Illustrator OR Photoshop
It’ll ask which page to open.
Edit and File>Save.
Don’t use Save as command.
Reopen and edit any other page you wish to edit.
Finish
September 20th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
This changes the 300 dpi tiff into a 72 dpi pdf, renbdering the images largely unuseable… any hacks for this?
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:29 am
Anthony. Take Ron’s advice and download IrfanView and open your 300 dpi tiff in it. You can then “save as” the individual pages as tiffs or another format of your choosing.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:34 am
Will open up in IrfanView(v4.20), and scroll pages using up/down arrows on toolbar. You can save or print individual pages. I hope this helps, regards Ron Vizor.