Preview.app and multipage tiff files (page number)
I scan completed job folders at my company and store the resulting files on a server for users to access. They are a multipage .tif format which is basically a fax file format that is very common among document scanners.
Preview is pretty good at viewing these except I am stuck with two problems.
- 10.4 Preview will only show the first 250 pages of a file.
- 10.5 Preview will show many more pages which is good, but it gives NO WAY to know what image number you are looking at!! (preview 10.4 shows image numbers under the thumbnails, but the 10.5 version for some mysterious reason does not).
So if you are looking at an image near the middle of a 500 page document, you have no idea what image number it is, and you basically have to click the little arrow on the print box until you get to that page (which can be hard to tell because you are looking at a small thumbnail of the page). It's completely unusable.
Now before you tell me "yes it does show the page numbers in the thumbnail view!!!" let me remind you that I am not viewing PDFs. Yes, for PDF files the page number is right there all nice and handy. But for these multipage tif files, no page number for you!!!
Hah, update! I have just discovered that with very short file names, you can see the image number, because Preview 10.5 appends the image number to the end of the file name on each thumbnail.
So you can see: myFile.tif-389 on page 389's thumbnail.
But if your filename is much longer, you see: myLongerFile... with no way to see the image number.
I don't even know where to complain about this. Any ideas welcome.
Preview is pretty good at viewing these except I am stuck with two problems.
- 10.4 Preview will only show the first 250 pages of a file.
- 10.5 Preview will show many more pages which is good, but it gives NO WAY to know what image number you are looking at!! (preview 10.4 shows image numbers under the thumbnails, but the 10.5 version for some mysterious reason does not).
So if you are looking at an image near the middle of a 500 page document, you have no idea what image number it is, and you basically have to click the little arrow on the print box until you get to that page (which can be hard to tell because you are looking at a small thumbnail of the page). It's completely unusable.
Now before you tell me "yes it does show the page numbers in the thumbnail view!!!" let me remind you that I am not viewing PDFs. Yes, for PDF files the page number is right there all nice and handy. But for these multipage tif files, no page number for you!!!
Hah, update! I have just discovered that with very short file names, you can see the image number, because Preview 10.5 appends the image number to the end of the file name on each thumbnail.
So you can see: myFile.tif-389 on page 389's thumbnail.
But if your filename is much longer, you see: myLongerFile... with no way to see the image number.
I don't even know where to complain about this. Any ideas welcome.
