Multi-Image TIFF Files

Hello.
I don't have a lot of time,
I need to have a multi-page TIFF file out of some images!
Thanks you!

Okay.
If I remember correctly, TIFF files can consist of multiple "pages". I don't think I've ever even created one myself back when I used Windows, but I do remember having opened and viewed a single TIFF file in the Windows picture viewer thingey whatever it is, which consisted of multiple images that could be cycled through just like in a PDF; but the file extension was certainly .TIFF .
Thanks.

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Message Edited by GregS on 10-08-2009 03:36 PM

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