Re: why can't feh view tiff images

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:13:36 -0700
David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu> wrote:

>
> On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Lic. Orestes leal wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:48:40 +0200
> > Samuel Bächler <linux@boeser.ch> wrote:
> >
> >>> I'm using feh to view most the images that I have but whenever I try
> >>> to open a tiff file using feh, it just shows a blank black screen.
> >>> Any ideas? I read up on the documentation but could not find
> >>> anything
> >>> saying that tiff is not supported.
> >>
> >
> > This behavior must be that feh was build without suppport for tiff
> > or there is some problem
> > with libtiff.
>
> There are also multiple forms of TIFF file -- TIFF is sort of a
> container format, a little like AVI, and more than one type of
> encoding can be used inside it. Not every reader can read every
> type. LZW compression is the most common, but I've seen others.

Well, this is new for me, if this it's true then today I've learn something new.

-olr

-- 
Orestes