David: Thanks for the response and education.
We're at the outer limit of my graphics knowledge. I'm not a graphic artist. I just got volunteered to build a mockup of a book for use by the publisher/author. (Lesson learned, never do favors for relatives who are authors.)
All I can tell you for sure is that I scanned the sucker as a 16bit Grayscale TIF from an old 8"x10" BW pic from the 1830s. It was scanned to TIF at the publisher's request.
I really have no idea what layers are, let alone if they exist in this pic. I also have on idea of the pixel size. However, I'd guess there is only one flat layer and I think the pixel size is 4530x5831 per Windows Explorer. (If this is correct, then I get 316,973,160 per your (WxHx4)x(L+2)...assuming L=1...formula.) This number equates to about 309.5mb if I did the math right.
So, even with the need to hold 2 copies of the file in ram, I guess I still don't understand why that file would not open when I have 1.2GB free ram plus 4GB of paging file? Perhapsthe free ram is not contiguous...although a couple utilities seem to lead me to the conclusion that over 1GB of it is. Again, probably over my head a tad.
In any event, I'll look into the boot switch and perhaps retest. If it works, I'll let you know.
Thanks for your help/patience with a guy using training wheels.
Rick: Thanks for the reply. I thought it must be an architectural issue. I'm not sure, but assume that since I scanned it as 16-bit grayscale, that it is not a 1-bit. However, point taken...maybe the program converts 16 to 32bit as well...perhaps doubling the file size requirments?
The bottom line is that since posting the question, I have installed/tested GIMP and have been able to easily open the file (and other larger ones) using GIMP on the same PC. Once open (and since I'm not going for high-quality, just a rough mockup) I turn right around and save it as jpg at a lower quality. One new graphics program is plenty to try learning at the moment, thank you very much.
I guess I should have scanned to 2 formats (one lo-res jpg for mock-up and 1 hi-res TIF for the publisher). However, there are 300 of these things and it was my first time over this hill. So I went for the "1 format fits all needs" method to save myself scanning hours. (Another lesson learned...pay me now or pay me later.)
Both:
Your product is much more intuitive than GIMP, Photoshop, etc. For me, a newbie who just wants to thrash through 300 pics and make them decent enough to print on my 600dpi laser, it was a godsend to be able to open files crop/adjust and save them...sans training/manual/help file. I've really enjoyed using your tool. Thanks for the tool and response. You guys do great work!
