Eog is unable to display multipage TIFF but is the default viewer for TIFF files
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Eye of GNOME |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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eog (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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eog (Fedora) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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eog (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: eog
Eye of gnome, the default image viewer of Ubuntu, open only the first page of a multi page TIFF image, hiding from end user existence of other pages.
After a little research I've found the this bug have a long story: https:/
Upstream this bug was not fixed because this feature was implemented in Evince, the generic document viewer used by default also by Ubuntu... but for me, and I think also from all other *end users* this is a non sense because evince in Ubuntu is not associated to open by default TIFF files so *end users* who receives a multi page TIFF doesn't know that this TIFF are multi page because EOG completely hide this information, showing only the first page :(
Same consideration are reported also here: https:/
I think we need to move forward with a simple and function solution.
For example I propose:
- make Evince default viewer for TIFF images
- make Evince default viewer only for multi page TIFF images (it's possible without adding more and more code?)
- adding analogue feature to EOG (maybe using partial code from evince)
- EOG should inform in it's gui that this TIFF has more pages and should provide a link to open it
Eye of GNOME 2.30.0
Ubuntu Version 10.04
Changed in eog (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in eog (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in eog: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
status: | Unknown → Won't Fix |
Changed in eog (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in eog: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
tags: | added: lucid |
Changed in eog (Fedora): | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Won't Fix |
Description of problem:
I'm raising this issue here because there's a serious usage problem for business
users who have large collections of multi-page tiff scans and also want to be
able to nicely display tiff photos. This problem results from the dichotomy of
display of different types of tiff images between eye of gnome and evince.
Many businesses have large collections of scanned documents in tiff multi-page
fax format, but the default action in fedora for display of tiff images is eye
of gnome which currently can only display the first page of such images, which
seems to be a shortcoming in it.
Evince can display multi-page tiff, so you might say to change the default
program to display tiff to evince? Well that is possible, but then all tiff
files including colour images are displayed with evince. Nautilus lets you
choose the program to display tiff files with but other programs (eg thunderbird
email) don't. If you choose evince as default viewer, the characteristics of
evince aren't always really ideal for display of all images and eye of gnome is
suited better to displaying some images.
How can this issue be dealt with? Can eye of gnome be made configurable to exec
another program eg evince when invoked with multi-page tiff files???
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.20.1
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Double click a multi-page tiff scan
2. Notice that eye of gnome cannot reproduce it
Actual results:
Inability to display the remainder of the image
Expected results:
Ability to display the full image
Additional info: