"Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@spamkillerbobpowell.net> wrote in message
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> Unfortunately, files need to be rasterised, this is to say decompressed,
> before they can be output to the Graphics object associated with the
> PrintDocument.
>
> You could conceivably write the data line by line to the printer
> decompressing as you go but the framework does not support this operation
> so you'd have to write considerable code to accomplish this outside of the
> API's.
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> "Samuel" <samuel.shulman@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:eYrs68VGIHA.4296@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I would like to print a large tiff image, the size of the tiff file is
>>about 40k but when I create a bitmap so I can print it the size of the
>>bitmap is 40mb or possibly much more
>>
>> Is there any way to print an image directly from the file (currently I
>> use PrintDocument)
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Samuel
>>
>

"Samuel" <samuel.shulman@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:eYrs68VGIHA.4296@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I would like to print a large tiff image, the size of the tiff file is
>about 40k but when I create a bitmap so I can print it the size of the
>bitmap is 40mb or possibly much more
>
> Is there any way to print an image directly from the file (currently I use
> PrintDocument)
>
> Thank you,
> Samuel
>