re: Windows Photo Gallery Won't Open Large Files
Friday, August 7, 2009 at 3:11 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by RogerB
(1 messages posted)
I suffer the same problem, which thus seems to result from an inherent limitation
in the application. It seems fairly clearly one of pixel numbers. I've been constructing
images of large historical maps by assembling mosaics of photos of individual sections
and Photo Gallery won't open images of 8768 x 14686 px either at the original 25MB
for a high-quality jpeg or when cut down to 4.5MB by reducing the jpeg quality.
On the other hand it will open 8678 x 9670 as either a high-quality jpeg at 16.7MB
or an uncompressed tiff at 242MB.
Irfanview works fine for all these (better at full-screen because it responds more
quickly to zooming) but it would be nice if one could just click and open all images
in Photo Gallery.
The real annoyance, though, is that Microsoft suggest the file is damaged or corrupted
when the file is fine but has hit their own limitation. Why can't they just say
so?
On Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:18 pm, Jason D. wrote:
>As I said, I don't have a good spread of images of varying file sizes and/or pixel
>dimensions to really test what the upper limit is of the gallery. The two factors
>are of course related but it seems to me the gallery is having more a problem with
>the image size than the file size. Also, I just can't track down any specifications
>for the application, probably because it's just integrated into Windows.
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>I'm pretty content with just using IrfanView. Like I mentioned before, I've used
>it before in the construction industry for viewing large, high resolution blueprints,
>and it was always very agile for panning and zooming. My biggest complaint about
>the photo gallery seeming broken is it makes me feel like my whole operating system
>might be broken in some way, which is a very unpleasant thought.
>
>I can definitely recommend IrfanView because it is an extremely light program that
>integrates well with Windows Vista. But I'm going to keep trying to diagnose the
>issue with photo gallery in the hopes there is a fix or at least some kind of diagnostic
>information I can pass along to Microsoft to determine the problem.
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