[TriLUG] TIF viewer recommendation

[M. Mueller/bhu5nji]

Hmm.  That was interesting.  In my Mandrake 8.1 KDE installation, in the menu 
under Multimedia-Graphics I did find ImageMagick display.  It did nothing but 
try to start and then quit.  When I tried your suggestion on starting display 
from a shell prompt (see below), it worked (the Aha! moment that I am 
addicted to).  Thank you for the introduction to "display".  I followed up 
with a quick read of man display and I found the -flip and -flop options.  I 
still need to figure out how to scale down the image to fit the whole page on 
my screen.  I need to figure out the .tif to .pdf thing you mentioned too.

This program is not for idiots, however.  And I choose to be an idiot 
sometimes because I can learn things only so fast.  Although, reading TriLUG 
has drastically advanced me on the Linux learning curve and reduced the 
number of times I play the idiot card.  And it's cheaper than paying Mr. 
O'Reilly everytime you need some advice.
 
So far, the score (as I see it) is as follows:
- KView: displays first page only
- KFax: display all pages, has menu for usual fax handling operations (the 
idiot's choice)
- display command: does everything, but you have to have brain engaged (there 
are 2 requirements here)
- The GIMP: It reportedly works, but I've not been able to figure it out.  
I've played with GIMP using the tutorials and I know how powerful it is.  My 
experience suggests that using The GIMP to view faxes is like using AutoCAD 
to draw stickmen.  The GIMP is just too cool to not figure out though, so I 
have another item on my todo list (...sigh).

This exercise demonstrates the power of Linux and its rich set of choices.

Thanks for the help and motivation to learn,
Mike

On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:07 pm, you wrote:
> Someone mentioned using convert from the ImageMagick package.  I've had
> success with this myself, converting multipage tiffs to pdf; it worked
> like a charm.
>
> But, a simpler way would be to use ImageMagick's own viewer, called
> simply display.
>
> % display foo.tif
>
> "M. Mueller/bhu5nji" wrote:
> > I subscribe to J-Fax to receive faxes.  Today I received a four page fax.
> > Using KView under KDE I can see only page 1.  The "Next Image" tool in
> > the menu bar re-dispays the forst page.
> >
> > I tried to download and RPM in something called Kuick but that failed
> > because of missing dependencies.  I found this tool here:
> > www.ncwd.uscourts.gov/viewinstruc.htm
> >
> > I moved the TIF file to a Windows 98 machine and used the image viewer on
> > that machine to view and print all four pages in the TIF file.
> >
> > Can anybody recommend a TIF viewer for Linux?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
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