Comments on: TIFF Merge and Split Utility

By: kwong

kwong — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:43:13 +0000

I took a look at my original code (it has been a long while), anyway, you will need to supply a path to your output file. For instance:

TiffMS -o c:\temp\out.tiff -m final.tiff final2.tiff

Could you give that a try?

By: Eric in Calgary

Eric in Calgary — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:41:43 +0000

I placed the program files into a c:\tiff directory –> not sure if that’s what you meant by the problem perhaps being a “space in your path.” I also enclosed the file names in quotes. Is that what you meant?

C:\tiff>TiffMS -o “out.tiff” -m “final.tiff” “final2.tiff”

Same error message, I am afraid. :(

By: kwong

kwong — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:21:22 +0000

It looks like you got a FileNotFound exception, which seems to me could be that your file names have spaces (or space in your path).

I’d put your parameters in quotes and try running again.

By: Eric in Calgary

Eric in Calgary — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:12:32 +0000

Hi Kenny!

I am trying to use your utility to merge two .tiff files, but get the following error message. I am using the command line, with the following command:

C:\Program Files\TIFF Merge Split Utility>TiffMS -o out.tiff -m final.tiff final
2.tiff

Can you see where I might be going wrong? Both .tiff files (final.tiff and final2.tiff) are in the C:\Program Files\TIFF Merge Split Utility directory. Thanks!

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: final.tiff
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorMan
agement)
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename)
at KerryWong.TiffMS.Utils.MSUtils.ConvertToMultiPageTiff(List`1 fileNames, St
ring outputFileName)
at KerryWong.TiffMS.Program.ProcessCommandLine(String[] args)
at KerryWong.TiffMS.Program.Main(String[] args)

By: kwong

kwong — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:05:03 +0000

If you find it useful, you can certainly use it wherever you see fit.

By: Satti

Satti — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:13:14 +0000

Hi Kerry,
I am looking for solution to merge multiple tiff files to one on my company’s website.
Please give me an advice, can I use your source code to get this done.
I am very new to .net.
Any detail advice will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Satti

By: vishal

vishal — Sat, 14 May 2011 03:10:42 +0000

it worked with quotes kerry..thank you..

By: kwong

kwong — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:59:35 +0000

It should work if you use quotes to qualify the file name: e.g. “test 123.tif”

By: vishal

vishal — Thu, 12 May 2011 06:41:43 +0000

Hi Kerry,

I have used your command line utility successfully for files without spaces and it works like a charm.

But it does not work where file name has space in it.

i.e. if i need to merge two files
sample 12.tif and sample 45.tif
and the merge file name is: sample 78.tif

then this does not work in command line prompt.

Any suggestions?

By: serg

serg — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:31:07 +0000

Kerry D. Wong! I`m from Russia. Thanks for this project, because it`s so necessary for documentation creation process.

By: kwong

kwong — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:28:38 +0000

Glad you found it useful.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:32:44 +0000

Hi Kerry, thanks for writing this. I got the CMD version working. I do get an error in Microsoft Office Document Imaging that the file can’t be opened on the same PC that it was created on, but it opens on others. Strange but I’ve got some workarounds in place. Thanks again.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:24:19 +0000

I am having a problem with view the tiff after the program has run. It says it is still open and that I cannot open it. Any advice?

By: Dwight

Dwight — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:34:15 +0000

Kerry,

tiffms_cmd.exe is producing a file, but it appears to be corrupt for some software. Microsoft Office Document Imaging (mspview.exe) throws an error and refuses to open the file. dumptif.exe uncovered following:

C:\download\tiffms_cmd\out>dumptif out.tif
dumptif version 1.22, by sfaxtools studio
Welcome to my dumptif. It’s fully free.
Developed by Kevin Zhu, sfaxtools studio,2002.10.
Copyright 2002.10-2004.3.
All rights reserved.
http://www.sfaxtools.com
—————————————————————————

Tiff Filename: out.tif
———————— Tiff Header ————————
Byte order: 4949 (/ 18761)
TIFF/FMF flag: 2a (/ 42)
Offset Of first IFD: b392 (/ 45970)

———————- Tiff IFD (offset: 0x0000b392) ———————-
number of entries: 14

FieldTag (Dec) Type count Value or Offset (Hex (/ Dec))
——————————– —- —– —————————–
254( NewSubfileType) 4 1 0 (/ 0)
256( ImageWidth) 3 1 6a0 (/ 1696)
257( ImageLength) 3 1 898 (/ 2200)
258( BitsPerSample) 3 1 1 (/ 1)
259( Compression) 3 1 4 (/ 4)
262(PhotometricInterpretation) 3 1 0 (/ 0)
273( StripOffsets) 4 1 8 (/ 8)
277( SamplesPerPixel) 3 1 1 (/ 1)
278( RowsPerStrip) 4 1 898 (/ 2200)
279( StripByteCounts) 4 1 b37a (/ 45946)
282( XResolution) 5 1 b382 (/ 45954)
283( YResolution) 5 1 b38a (/ 45962)
293( T6Options) 4 1 0 (/ 0)
296( ResolutionUnit) 3 1 2 (/ 2)

———————- Tiff IFD (offset: 0×00018622) ———————-
number of entries: 14

FieldTag (Dec) Type count Value or Offset (Hex (/ Dec))
——————————– —- —– —————————–
254( NewSubfileType) 4 1 0 (/ 0)
256( ImageWidth) 3 1 6a0 (/ 1696)
257( ImageLength) 3 1 898 (/ 2200)
258( BitsPerSample) 3 1 1 (/ 1)
259( Compression) 3 1 4 (/ 4)
262(PhotometricInterpretation) 3 1 0 (/ 0)
273( StripOffsets) 4 1 b440 (/ 46144)
277( SamplesPerPixel) 3 1 1 (/ 1)
278( RowsPerStrip) 4 1 898 (/ 2200)
279( StripByteCounts) 4 1 d1d2 (/ 53714)
282( XResolution) 5 1 18612 (/ 99858)
283( YResolution) 5 1 1861a (/ 99866)
293( T6Options) 4 1 0 (/ 0)
296( ResolutionUnit) 3 1 2 (/ 2)
Read IFD Error: error of directy entry numers!

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