Gary Collins wrote:

Any chance that the ability to load/save layered TIFF files (with zip compression) might appear in a future version of GIMP?

Loading works.

For saving, have a look at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335975

Basically the tiff plug-in is waiting for someone to add this. Maybe you do want to have a try?

Regards, Michael

Michael Schumacher wrote:

Gary Collins wrote:

Any chance that the ability to load/save layered TIFF files (with zip compression) might appear in a future version of GIMP?

Loading works.

For saving, have a look at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335975

Basically the tiff plug-in is waiting for someone to add this. Maybe you do want to have a try?

Regards, Michael

Hi,

I've been using GIMP in Windows XP for few years(starting with 2.2, now using 2.6), but I always got tiff flattened on load, no matter what settings were used in Photoshop (Elements 2, CS 2-4). Is it Photoshop's fault?

Best regards,
Matt

Gary Collins wrote:

For me, one of the greatest hindrances to migrating to GIMP is its inability to handle layered TIFF files. I have a large number of such files, with zip compression, and I really don't wan't to have to change this format, because for one thing my preferred picture viewer can handle layered TIFF files but can't handle GIMP format (at least, not yet. I have put in a request to the author and it is possible that in future this capability may be added) and for another thing, TIFF with zip compression seems to provide the most compact lossless format for layered files. Any chance that the ability to load/save layered TIFF files (with zip compression) might appear in a future version of GIMP?

I tried various methods to convert a multi-layered TIFF I created using Krita, but none of those would open in Gimp. I actually converted the TIFF to PSD using ImageMagick, but Gimp complained about an unknown compression type in layers.

You may want to try this TIFF specific mailing list:

http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff

Maybe you can get a hint there on how to go about converting your images.

HTH,

Claus

Claus Cyrny wrote:

You may want to try this TIFF specific mailing list:

http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff

Maybe you can get a hint there on how to go about converting your images.

This discussion of saving text layer as a layer in TIFF too (not only layered TIFF) might also be helpful reference:

http://www.asmail.be/msg0054984065.html