Someone sent me some scanned in documents with three pages in the one tif file and I had a great deal of difficulty viewing them in Linux.

I tried Gimp 2.2.13 which gave an unknown field encountered message

KView just gave a black screen
KKuickshow gave - perhaps the file format is unsupported or your Imlib is not installed properly

Adobe Photoshop LE 5.0 running in windows could not load it.

Eventually I manged to load it using a great windows program called irfanview. I now have this working under wine.

It seems that the Linux programs are behind the game here.

Where might I find a program which can support the most up to date file formats?

TIA

I think I have worked this out with the help of this page

http://suppressingfire.org/~burner/evil-mods-tiff/
He recommends using a program called foremost with

foremost -i attached.tif -o attached

I tried it and it worked.

I was thinking as much as soon as I read your first post. In my experience, a problem opening ALL files usually means that the reading program has bugs, but problems with only specified files generally means that the generating program did something non-standard. That, or the file is simply corrupt.

This is doubly-true when it comes to Microsoft. You should never expect their programs to generate standard anything.

Even so, I'm surprised to read just how blatantly non-standard their tiff generation actually is. Even their own products can't handle the garbage they produce, and you have to use a data recovery program to extract anything usable. Pathetic.

M$ actually calls the blatant breaking of standards "value add", where they "add features" and you must use their software to "take advantage" of the "improved features".