[rt-users] Display tiff-attachments

[Cassandra Phillips-Sears]

Hello. You can get plugins that display TIFFs (http://www.alternatiff.com/ 
  looks like it works in IE as well as Firefox, Opera, and Chrome) but  
I agree with Thomas' approach.
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Cassandra Phillips-Sears
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On Feb 20, 2009, at 12:17 PM 2/20/09, Tom Lahti wrote:

> Knaupp, Thomas wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> we're using RT 3.8.2.
>> Is there any chance to display (a preview of) tiff-attachments?
>> It works fine with .png, .jpg, etc... so it would be nice to see  
>> support for .tiff, too.
>
> I don't know of any web browsers that display TIFF images; certainly  
> not IE or
> Firefox.  I suppose it should be possible to internally convert the  
> TIFF to a
> browser-supported image type in a temp file and send that to the  
> browser as a
> "preview", but image conversion is very CPU expensive.  You're  
> better off just
> storing it as an image type that web browsers can display in the  
> first place.
>
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