Bug#296630: eog: Only show first page of a multipage tiff file

[Giuseppe Sacco]

Il giorno mer, 23-02-2005 alle 20:54 +0100, Lo=EFc Minier ha scritto:
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>  I'm not sure this is really a bug though, I can't call eog on a .avi,
>  it won't show me the first image of the .avi or let me navigate through
>  the various images.
>    While I personally think this ain't a bug, I can talk with the
>  upstream authors to confirm this if you want.  It would probably end up
>  being marked as "wontfix" though.

Thanks, I reported this bug against eog since I know it is able to show
many images (like all images in one directory) so, maybe, displaying a
multipage TIFF isn't really difficult.

Please note, that multipage TIFF is a very common format and will be
more common in the future since it is the only "safe" format for
archiving signed images of important documents.

Just as an example, the italian law permit to store digitally archived
images of document, if you electronically sign the archive, and delete
the original paper. Many companies are now switching to this, and record
every document in amultipage TIFF file (our law suggest to use TIFF
since almost all other format include some sort of macro and would
probably change the document itself.)

This is not a problem for GIMP, since it is a *manipulation* program,
but it is a real problem for imagemagik and eog that just display
images.

Anyway, thanks for forwarding this upstream.

Giuseppe