Re: [Gimp-user] how to exposing more tiff load options for scripting

[Tim Dickson <tim tree-of-life co uk>]

To answer the various questions. (for some reason i did not get the 
posts, but found them in the mailing list archive)
1. I am using gimp 2.8 (windows version in this case - the version that 
comes with slackware is somewhat older)
2. yes the files are scans of sometimes rather large documents eg 230 
pages file size 1-2gb or so.
3. You may have noticed I said in my original post that I had already 
tried imagemajick but it would not work correctly. (version 6.7.9 Q16). 
I can extract the correct number of images, but the contents of some of 
them are blank/garbage.
3b. when running gimp manually and just loading a single page from the 
tiff, gimp can successfully load, allow me to edit and save the 
individual pages that are garbage when using imagemajick
5. yes I should report a bug due to gimp crashing, but unfortunately the 
(tiff) file is confidential, so it can't be released for testing by 
others. I don't mind testing release or debug versions (of gimp) on it 
and reporting though.

ps thanks for the offer. I am already getting someone with alternate 
custom image tools to look at it (my particular problem), but from a 
stand-point of improving gimp functionality, fixing bugs, and doing it 
myself I posted this request. It seems that gimp multi-image handling is 
behind the rest of its expansive features. If you load a 
multi-page/image tiff as layers, or as images, you can't save it as a 
single multi-image tiff.
Regards, Tim