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mark.alanzo@gmail.com wrote:

> Does anyone know of software with GUI interface that makes it
> comparatively easy to import, export (drag and drop) and !! rearrange
> !! multipage tiff files?

Ghostscript with GSView might... 

This is not freeware per say, but under the assumption most people have
at least one MS Office Applications, it's free because you already have
it and didn't know it...

If you have MS Office, look in the Microsoft Office Tools Start Menu
Program Group (it might be a subgroup of the Microsoft Office Programs
Group if you have that) for a little piece of software called Microsoft
Office Document Imaging.  It might be installed by default under the
installation of any piece of MS Office.

Some Tiffs work there some do not.  If the Tiffs are uncompressed in
IrfanView I think they work there.  If you have the software,
experiment and see if they will display and after you save them if they
open in another image program.

Rearranging Tiffs there is easy and powerfully done.

On 16 Feb 2006 09:51:31 -0800, mark.alanzo@gmail.com wrote:

> Does anyone know of software with GUI interface that makes it
> comparatively easy to import, export (drag and drop) and !! rearrange
> !! multipage tiff files?
> 
> I can use IrfanView to create Multipage TIF but when those files run to
> several pages from multiple sources that change every few months ....
> there has to be a more robust solution.
> 
> And NO, I do not want to use PDF.  Adobe just cost me $$$$. Using their
> !@#$@#$!@ Adobe Pro v7 I edited our company's catalog to include
> revised product dimensions only to find that when viewed by a v. 7
> adobe reader by one of our primary customers the .pdf "file" ignored
> the edits and showed only the old dimensions .... old dimensions my
> customer then used in their project design!!  When the cause of the
> error was discovered they made us PAY for the rework. Argh. Thus my
> keen desire to distribute multipage .tiff files that CANNOT be misread .

You should never edit PDF's only the source document. Then recreate the
PDF, there will never be an edit to miss because it will simply be a
representation of the original. When you edit a PDF directly the original
information remains and is only coverd up, and you know the risks there.

I find multipage TIFFs a huge PITA as there are so many different flavors
of TIFF, and some programs will not open TIFFs created by others, or if
they do the pallatte is so screwed up you can't read it anyway. Seriously,
if you create your catalog in a publisher program and simply print it to a
PDF using something like PDFCreator, you'll never have to worry about edits
ending up in the wrong layer.

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HK