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Help ! How to view all pages of a Fax tif file ?

Mar 8, 2004 10:49AM PST

Running Windows XP home, 1.8G Celeron, 384MB Ram, 25G of free harddisk space.
I have received fax which is in tif file format. I tried to remove the header which indicates time, date, fax number of sender, etc. from each of the pages, so that I could forward it to a friend without revealing my source.

In the viewer that comes with XP, I hit the edit button which brings up the editor(I believe it is MS paint, or draw) but only the first page shows, please advise how could I view and edit the rest of the pages.

I have tried to open the file in Corel Photo-paint but still, I could view the first page only.

Any help will be appreciated.

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Re:Help ! How to view all pages of a Fax tif file ?
Mar 10, 2004 8:42AM PST

a normal TIFF file doesn't suppport multiple pages. depending on the software that captured the fax, it's all on one page or the remaining pages are gone. there are TIFF file formats that support multiple pages, but they don't use the TIF extension.

Herb....

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Re:Re:Help ! How to view all pages of a Fax tif file ?
Mar 13, 2004 10:39AM PST

Hi Herb,

Thanks for your reply, please advise if it is possible to convert the TIFF file into the file format that supports multi-page for editing. If so, kindly advise name of the software and a link for it.

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Re:Re:Re:Help ! How to view all pages of a Fax tif file ?
Mar 14, 2004 3:26AM PST

there is no way to convert the file once you have received it. you need to tell your FAX program to create multipage TIFF files or to create separate files for each TIFF when it receives the faxes. i don't use the Windows XP FAX program so i can't tell you how to configure it.

Herb...

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Re:Re:Re:Help ! How to view all pages of a Fax tif file ?
May 22, 2004 9:45PM PDT

use internet search engines using the keywords multipage tiff. There are several freeware and shareware solutions to cut multipage tiffs into single pages. Beware, some multipage tiffs are so huge that your computer might come to a halt while doing this ormight be so slow during the process that you think that