Too big a file???

My daughter is doing an anthology for her school. There is a page for each student. For each page she scans a writing sample, a drawing and a photo, saves them as TIFFs, and then puts them in the template she has made up. It's been saved as a continuous file for printing purposes. She has done four of nine classes and the file size is over 2 GB. Pages will not open it, I suspect because of its size. Is there anything to be done other than starting over and either saving each class separately as TIFFs, or together as JPGs? In the end she will export it as a PDF and take it to the printer. Thank you for any suggestions/help.
Cheers, Peter

TIFFs can be really, really big. You might consider converting them to .png first. You can use Preview, Graphic Converter, Photoshop/Photoshop Elements, etc. to do the conversion. Another option might be .gif. JPGs are lossy so I wouldn't use it for drawings but photos would be OK.

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