[quote]Kim (20 Oct, 2003 14:49):
>Since I now manage to get Tame/2 to work with my scanner I made some >test on scanning. First issue that I figured out is that Tame/2 has a limit on >viewing files larger than 85mb.No, Tame (0.9.8) has no limit to show files >85MB, the limitation lies within tifproc.dll from OS/2, so only showing the files in Lighttable folder is disabled.
>The file I scanned turned out to be 515mb and even pmView gave some >trouble to open it, well it crashed actually giving following message:
Regardless if there is a bug in PmView or not, scanning such big files tells primarily one: The user hasn't understood how scanning works.
For all unscaled purposes 300 DPI (~25MB picture size) are more than satiesfying. All higher resolutions are only (and really only then) needed if you want to scale a smaller picture (e.g. for scaling a 24x36 slide to DIN A4 you need 3200 DPI)
But if you want to discover limitations furthermore: Simply try to print such a big 500MB picture (but please do a complete backup of your system before, otherwise you'll damn the day you've tried that.