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Have you tried LZW or AdobeDeflate? I've never tried but just throwing 
out some possibilities.

-Edward

Jonathan Finger wrote:
> That is the only way to reduce the image to a manageable size.  ZIP
> compression could possible work even though it isn't as good as jpeg but
> unfortunately Microsoft won't open that format either.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Lam [mailto:edward@sidefx.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 10:58 AM
> To: Jonathan Finger
> Cc: tiff@lists.maptools.org
> Subject: Re: [Tiff] Microsoft Image Viewer
> 
> Jonathan Finger wrote:
>> When I use libtiff to create a jpeg compressed tiff it can not be
> viewed 
>> by Microsoft image viewer (or any other Microsoft product).  The image
> 
>> appears as a black image of the correct height and width.  Also 
>> Microsoft image viewer throws an error that says it is an invalid 
>> image.  The tiff can be opened by other image viewers just not
> Microsoft 
>> ones.  Does anyone have any information on this problem and even 
>> possibly a work around?
> 
> Don't use jpeg compressed tiffs?
> 
> 
> 

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