Hi, I'm trying to develop a web version of an app we have that stores document images. However, a good portion of the images are tiff's, which IE can't natively display. Can anyone recommend a good plugin that will display them properly?
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Wouldn't it make more sense to have the web application convert the images to something standard either on the fly or using some caching mechanism and then allowing the user to download the tiff format if necessary?
Spencer Ruport
2009-01-23 17:53:18
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IIRC, the QuickTime plugin handles TIFF acceptably - however at the cost of having QuickTime around. Unfortunately this is not negligible - QuickTime has never been too friendly on Windows systems.
Mihai Limbășan
2009-01-23 18:02:54
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QuickTime should work, but keep in mind that TIFF files are usually not optimized for size, and are often much larger than JPEG resp. PNG renderings of the same image.
To avoid slow page loads, it might be better to convert the images to JPEG resp. PNG for display, as others suggested
oefe
2009-01-23 18:12:40
What does "resp." mean?
Kip
2009-01-23 18:18:17
Yes, respectively.Which of these formats is better will depend on the contents of the images. JPEG is usually more appropriate for photos and the like, while PNG is better for charts, screenshots etc.
oefe
2009-01-24 14:33:58
Thanks, oefe - but I was actually just responding to Kip's question... :)
Mihai Limbășan
2009-01-29 20:11:45
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I found a good one at alternatiff.com, in case anyone is interested.
Kevin
2009-01-23 22:00:15