topic Re: seeking tiff viewer in Operating System - HP-UX

seeking tiff viewer

Stefan Schulz — Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:30:26 GMT

Im seeking a tiff viewer for HP-UX 10.20 which is small and fast. It should support zoom and rotation of the image perhaps but not neccessarily printing.

Also it is important that Tiff CCITT Group 4 is supportet.

I did a search on the porting center and tried the software i found. But without luck. eg: gview is to big and doesnt view my Tiff CCITT Group 4 files. The viewer integratet in the tiff-3.5 distribution doesnt support zoom and rotate. xv is shareware for which i don't have the money right now. Gimp is far to big and also doesn't support CCITT Group 4 files.

imageview from HP-UX 10.20 also doesn't support this Tiff CCITT Group 4 format.

Background for this request:

Our document management software supports the creation of tiff files (CCITT Group 4 as mentioned). The integrated viewer is slow, uncomfortable and unreliable. Thats why i am looking for a small tiff viewer, not an imagemanipulation or converter programm.

Hope someone has a tip for me.

Regards

Stefan

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Tony Constantine_1 — Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:09:07 GMT

you can try tiff-3.5.4 heres the link

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/tiff-3.5.4/

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Stefan Schulz — Fri, 24 Nov 2000 06:48:36 GMT

Tony:

the viewer integrated in tiff-3.5.4 has no zoom or rotate funktion. As we are viewing DIN A0 (size E) Drawings we need the zoom funktion.

Thanks for your suggestion. Do you hav another tip for me?

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Tony Constantine_1 — Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:07:29 GMT

It may be worth doing a search on the HPUX Software Porting And Archive Centre

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Stefan Schulz — Wed, 06 Dec 2000 16:09:16 GMT

The Porting Center is where i found the viewers i mentioned. In the mean time i figured that the tiff files i am using are not 100% tiff G4. And libtiff, which is used by most viewers, relies on 100% tiff spezifikatiion.

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Peter Van Nieuwenhoven — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:01:02 GMT

Stefan,

Did you try "ImageMagick", also found on the porting center ? It's precompiled for HP-UX 11.00, but the source is also available.

Good luck!

Peter

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Mark Grant — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:09:04 GMT

What about that classic of unix image programs "xv".

You can get that here

http://www.trilon.com/xv/downloads.html

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Massimo Bianchi — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:34:29 GMT

This java library looks like to support the G4 tiff, and was tested on a 10.20.

http://www.lizardworks.com/java.html

I do not like java, but it might be the solution to your problem...

Massimo

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Massimo Bianchi — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:37:29 GMT

hpux graphica compiled stuff:

http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/hpux/X11/Graphics/

Massimo

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Massimo Bianchi — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:42:39 GMT

Other interesting site:

http://www.tiffy.de/

or do a google search for "java tiff g4 viewer" and enjoy the thousands of results :)

Massimo

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Alan Turner — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:23:09 GMT

Have you looked atImageMagick

http://www.imagemagick.org/

(I'm not sure it would count as small, though).

Re: seeking tiff viewer

Stefan Schulz — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:30:46 GMT

Hi,

thanks to those new replies. Unfortunately the notification didn't work so it took some time to recognize this.

Thanks to Massimo. These links are pretty interesting.

ImageMagick was to big and to slow to start. As mentioned i was looking for a viewer not a manipulation programm.

In the mean time (note the original post was in 2000) we bought and installed SwiftView as a company license. Have a look at http://www.swiftview.com/sview1.htm. This is fast and easy to use and met our requirements.

Thanks for your tips

Regards Stefan