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I'm trying to find a browser plugin or something like that to view/rotate/zoom/etc. multiple paged .tiff files. My requirements are that it must be cross-platform (Windows, Linux, ...) and cross-browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE, ...). The closest related topic I could find was this one, and almost everywhere points to AlternaTIFF, but it doesn't work in Linux.

Where can I find such plugin or is there anyway I can manipulate .tiff files via web browser?

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  • I would convert the tiff into jpg server side and view *that*, much easier and more reliable – Pekka Oct 09 '15 at 20:09
  • I don't know if that would work for multiple paged files @Pekka웃 – lucasdc Oct 09 '15 at 20:17
  • Oh, sure. ImageMagick can convert each page of a tiff into a jpeg, easy. You'd have to use a gallery of some sort to allow the user to browse through them - but that's still likely orders of magnitude easier to do than a cross-platform TIFF viewer. – Pekka Oct 09 '15 at 20:21
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    The current "standard solution" is to send JPEG renderings of each "view" of the TIFF file across the internet to a browser. This is slow, wasteful of bandwidth/compute resources and less than ideal. My attempts to push back on this idea with a client side TIFF viewer have failed. The strange thing is that a PDF viewer is an order of magnitude more complicated to write, yet can be found for every browser. – BitBank Oct 10 '15 at 11:38

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