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    Default Raster Design and SID

    I'm a Raster Design newbie.

    We have five .sid files which, all together, cover an entire county. These files are in the neighborhood of 600mb (each) and consequently put a lot of strain on a workstation.

    What I would like to be able to do is crop a given area out of one of these .sid files. When I attempt this, I get a message saying that the file format is not editable. I am hesitant to 'save as' because (correct me if I'm wrong) a sid file is compressed and the resulting image file would be huge.

    We do not currently have any software in-house that will edit sid files and I would like to be able to work with these files without losing too much time.

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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    Default Re: Raster Design and SID

    Paul go ahead a chop one up......and let us know what results are.
    With a copy of sid file goes without saying. Don't be skeeert!

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    Default Re: Raster Design and SID

    Your only other option is to buy the software from LizardTech to work with the sid format.

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    Default Re: Raster Design and SID

    I tried saving one of the sid files to a tiff. I let it run locally and overnight. I got an unhandled exception and consequently acad error aborting...the .tmp file that got created was 9.34 GB.

    I don't think I will try that again

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