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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Making okular the default program for tiff files?
From:       Jos van den Oever <jvdoever () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-12-23 20:37:48
Message-ID: c2dbc4260912231237n2476e8ceued8f344a17b8e4ea () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/12/23 Jos van den Oever <jvdoever@gmail.com>:
> 2009/12/23 Stefan Majewsky <majewsky@gmx.net>:
>> Am Mittwoch, 23. Dezember 2009 09:49:16 schrieb Andras Mantia:
>>>   TIFF is "interesting", it can be plain graphics where a graphic editing
>>> app fits more for them, or it can be a multipage document (produced by
>>> FAX applications), where Okular would be a better choice.
>>
>> I would in this case prefer an approach that files are opened in a viewer
>> first, and the viewer offers a button to open the editor of choice. This could
>> be extended where applicable.
>
> Multipage TIFF files are generated also by software that comes with
> scientific microscopes, they are called TIFF stacks there. These files
> are either single images or movies. The use-case where you have
> multiple pages you want to page through does not arise there. TIFF
> stacks are used because they store the movies losslessly.

An example of such use can be found here:
  http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/images/blood-brain-barrier.zip
This zip contains a tif stack of 72 images. Okular is the only KDE
program I know that can show all frames/pages.

(ImageJ is a very popular program with biologists and physists for
analyzing microscope data.)

Cheers,
Jos

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