Problems with TIF files

[Paul Inwood]

Windows 10, Finale 2014d. (I have the later upgrades but am not using them for this project.)

On using Export Pages in the graphics tool, and exporting TIF lettersize pages with a mixture of music and text at 1200dpi resolution (as requested by the publisher), the resuting files are only 8 bytes large and no program can open them (and even if they could, there would be nothing to see!). Any ideas as to how to solve this problem? If I were to import all 85 files into 2014.5, or the latest version, would that make any difference?

[motet]

I can confirm that TIFF doesn't work with 2014.5. (MM's QA is rather poor--they probably never tried it at 1200 DPI.) PNG works, so you could do that and convert it to TIFF with another program (should be free ones available). The publisher should really be using vector graphics, though.

[zuill]

I can print beautiful high resolution tif files from both 2014 and 2014.5. I'm using Windows 7, however. But they are crisp and clean.

Zuill

[motet]

I have Windows 7, but I get exactly Paul's result: 8-byte files. PNG works fine. Perhaps it has to do with how complex the page is. I used a page of an orchestra score.

But you say "print." Are you using "Print to file" rather than exporting from the Graphics tool?

[motet]

Tried "print to file." I'm not sure what it outputs, but it looks too small to be a graphics file. Perhaps it's a bunch of Postscript commands.

[zuill]

I'll be glad to test anyone's file on my machine for comparison.

Zuill

[motet]

I'm still not clear how you're doing it.

It happens for me with the default document. Graphics tool, export pages, 1200DPI TIFF.

[zuill]

Exactly. This forum doesn't allow me to upload the file, so I'm not able to show you how good it looks.

Zuill

P.S.: I zipped the picture and the 1200DPI was still too large. Here's a zipped file of a 600DPI picture.

[motet]

It's not a question of looks anyway. It looks to me like whatever code they run crashes. 600 works, 1200 does not. I've got a 32-bit version of Windows, so am limited to 3.something GB of memory, so maybe that's it.

[Zoots]

FWIW:
I've never used the Graphics Export but in Finale 25:
I opened the Finale default document
Graphics - Export Pages
Set type to TIFF
Set resolution to 1200

Finale 25 created a 638KB file.
Like I said, FWIW since it is F25.

Bill

[Paul Inwood]

Just to report back that using Finale 25 solved the problem. Did not try 2014.5. I suspect that 2014d cannot handle pages at such a large resolution (the resultant files in Finale 25 are nearly all well over 1MB).