Picture and fax viewer and TIFF images

[Steve McLellan]

Hi,

This has been posted in a couple of places, so apologies if you've read it.

As part of some work I'm doing I need to write very large TIFFs to disk, so
I need to write them either in tiles or in stips. There are various open
source libraries to do this, but I've noticed that Picture and Fax Viewer
(and the preview in Windows Explorer) can't open either tiled images or
images saved with non-interleaved colour planes (i.e. RRRRRRR.... GGGGG.....
BBBBB.... instead of RGB RGB RGB). It's not an enormous problem, but I'm
keen to know whether there are any other limitations since we obviously
don't want to output images that don't look like valid images.

Thanks for any help,

Steve