My last submitted convert script works OK for small tifs by converting them to PDFs however, for large ones (or perhaps non-standard ones who knows) it wrecks my CPU and forces a reboot. I have a 2Mb tiff that does this every time.
So FWIW, here is an alternative, its called tiffsplit.
mkdir ~/tmptif rm -f ~/tmptif/* tiffsplit $1 ~/tmptif/prefix kuickshow ~/tmptif
This is also sub-optimal but works. It creates the individual pages as seperate images which kuickshow was able to view in preview or fullscreen mode. Not too bad. Suboptimal because it would be better to re-combine them to PDF (anyone?) so that they could be printed as one and sent to others as a PDF.
Update> solved it:
cd ~/tmptif tiff2ps * > prefix.ps ps2pdf prefix.ps xpdf prefix.pdf
This views it as a PDF successfully. I guess these tools are better with tiff files than the ImageMagick convert tool?
BTW
http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/
This site was helpful but in the end all of the non-commercial image viewers (that I could actually install) failed to do the job.
FWIW
Stuart
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