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I need a Tiff viewer (multipage) is any tiff viewer already in Puppy or not? thanks for any help

MU · Posted: Thu 20 Mar 2008, 14:56 Post subject:

cd /usr/bin/
ls -1 tiff*

I get:
tiff2bw
tiff2pdf
tiff2ps
tiff2rgba
tiffcmp
tiffcp
tiffdiff
tiffdither
tiffdump
tiffgt
tifficc
tiffinfo
tiffmedian
tiffset
tiffsplit
tifftopnm

If you type for example:
tiff2pdf --help
then you can see how to use it.
But I don't know, if multiple pages are supported.

Maybe this is "tiffsplit" written for?

MU · Posted: Thu 20 Mar 2008, 15:45 Post subject:

yes, tiffsplit splits multipage tiffs.
You can then watch the single tiffs in mtpaint or gqview, so my PDF-converterscript from above is not needed.

Mark

Dingo · Posted: Thu 20 Mar 2008, 15:55 Post subject:

yes, but, for example, my multipage tiff was a document sended by fax to mail service to me. for me, is easier and comfortable to view this via pdf viewer than split first in its single pages

MU · Posted: Thu 20 Mar 2008, 16:19 Post subject:

http://linuxgazette.net/138/misc/lg/multipage_tif_file.html

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

Dingo,

you got me googling, as I've not heard of multi-page tiff before. But you're not alone in your quest:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=10144
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=28449

Unfortunately, the ghfaxviewer has gnome dependencies for it to compile. There are also references to possibly using a browser plugin to view these tiffs. But anyway, I found qfaxreader, which I've uploaded here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27406

Like Mu, not having any such documents as multi-page tiffs, I've got no idea whether/how the program works. Give it a try & let us know how it goes.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

Dingo,

here's an alternative:

http://tiff-plugin.sourceforge.net/

I've attached this, (compiled with pup2.16), so extract the attached package to /. It just extracsts 3 files, /usr/bin/mozilla-tiff-viewer, /usr/lib/mozilla-tiff-plugin/mozilla-tiff-plugin.so & a symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

Let us know how it compares, in viewing, with qfaxreader.

Here's a page to test whether the tiff plugin is working:

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/testpages/tiff.html

wjaguar · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 182

Attached is what I use for multipage TIFFs; a simple Perl script which splits a TIFF into a temp directory and launches gqview to display the results. From usability standpoint, gqview in a directory browse mode is no worse than any natively "multipage-capable" TIFF viewer - and all such viewers known to me are inferior to gqview on features.

paulski · Posted: Tue 24 Jun 2008, 15:02 Post subject: Tiff Tools not there in Puppy 4

I've been testing all me neato scripts for doing stuff with tiffs - I get multipage ones often and convert them to pdf - then view them
All ok with Puppy 2 series
but I just tried it in Puppy 4

look at this:
cd /usr/bin
ls -l *tiff

I get
tiffdiff
tifficc
tifftopnm
............... and nothing more

Now thats a real pain as tiff2pdf if gone.

I tried a debian package - but they don't run- probably hate the kernel.

Anyone know where I can get all my tiff tools back to work with Puppy 4.0?

MU · Posted: Tue 24 Jun 2008, 17:00 Post subject:

Paulski, can't you copy them from Puppy 2 to Puppy 4?
Mark

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

here are all the /usr/bin/tiff* files from pup2.16.

paulski · Posted: Wed 25 Jun 2008, 15:40 Post subject:

Fantastic guys. Thanks MU and muggins!

That was the solution. Installed the binaries and all is rosy.

I did fear that the Pup 2.16 files could go haywire because of a different kernel. Nothing like that happened.

Now all my little scripts have come back to life. Mutlipage PDF's from multpage tifs here we go!

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2449

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

there's also qfaxreader

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27406

Aitch Smile

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

jpeps,

it's hard to say what may be causing the errors, if you don't specify what they are! Otherwise, you can try Aitch's suggestion & try & use qfaxreader.