Topic: Can album.pl work with large tif files - Old Newspapers Library Project

[neomlsra]

This is not a support question yet but a usability one. I have a large newspaper collection that has been being scanned at a public library that I would like to find some software that will display a directory tree of where the files are located, thumnails and than launch a viewer such as Brava or allow them to view the pages of the newspaper.

The files are very large as we needed very fine resolution in order to allow deep zooming for older people to read the newspapers and they are in a TIF format. I have a dual processor dell with 2 GB RAM and RAID 5. It also is running Gentoo Linux.

Your package looks about as close as I can find to what I need but there is nothing about using it with large files or TIF format.

Thanks for your help!

neomlsra

[Mike Bobbitt]

neomlsra,

album.pl will work fine with large files. Some of the templates may not "look" too well if the image extends beyond 100% of the viewing area, but there won't be any technical issues, just visual ones.


Cheers
Mike

[neomlsra]

Thanks for the response, what about the TIF format vs. JPEG or PNG?

[Mike Bobbitt]

The image formats are OK, you just need to make sure they're all listed in @imgexts in your config. (I think TIF is not included by default...)

[frister]

TIF should be one of the @movieexts for compatibility with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Mozilla instead of @imgexts.

With TIF in @imgexts I get the old blank box. But, If I put TIF in @movieexts, it will open a separate browser window or tab and invoke the Quicktime or other designated TIF file viewer (on my windows machine, QT is the default viewer for TIF)

Tested this on WIndows with IE, Mozilla and Firefox, on Linux with Firefox.

When I tested Konkeror on Linux, the browser was able to handle the TIF extension internally as another image type (TIF in @imgexts), but demanded a plugin when I put the TIF in @movieexts