Parse enormous TIFs

Post by **magick** » 2006-06-06T15:15:08-07:00

ImageMagick can process up to terabyte images. You will need plenty of temporary free space because it stages the image to disk before writing it to the output image file.

Post by **magick** » 2006-06-07T08:32:51-07:00

Make sure you are running ImageMagick 6.2.8-0 the very latest version which has patches for large file support. If the process still fails, try

convert -debug cache image.tif -crop 1024x768 image-%d.png

Look at the resource requirements of the cache file to ensure you have enough disk space available. If so, the "Insufficient memory" exception may be coming from the TIFF delegate library rather than ImageMagick.

Post by **magick** » 2006-06-07T10:06:07-07:00

Make sure your Windows disk is NTFS rather than FAT. FAT is limited to 4GB,

Can you post a URL to your TIFF image. We'll need to reproduce the problem to track down its source.

Post by **magick** » 2006-06-09T13:42:42-07:00

Add -debug cache to your command line. It will tell you how much temporary disk space it requires to process you image. Also post the results of this command:

tiffinfo image.tif

If you don't have tiffinfo, try locating it or type

identify image.tif

If we know the characteristics of the image we might be able to reproduce a similar image that we can try to convert on our machines.

Post by **magick** » 2006-06-09T17:23:55-07:00

We created an image similiar to yours and it converted without complaint. We're using ImageMaick 6.2.8 on a Fedora Core 5 system with 2GB of memory and 40GB of temporary disk.