I agree with Ed that going to PDF seems unfortunate. Check out Jon Stroop's Loris [1] for a lightweight implementation of tiling using IIIF [2,3] that the Open Seadragon zoom-pan viewer works over. Cool demo at: http://libimages.princeton.edu/osd-demo/ Cheers, Simeon [1] https://github.com/pulibrary/loris [2] http://iiif.io/ [3] http://www-sul.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/ On 11/8/13 2:14 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > On the same note, I've had good experiences with using adore djatoka to > render jpeg2000 files. Maybe something better has since come along. I'm out > of touch with this type of technology. > On Nov 8, 2013 2:10 PM, "Edward Summers" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the Web seems like >> the answer. Isn’t there a tiling viewer (like Leaflet) that could be used >> to render jpeg derivatives of the original tif files in Omeka? >> >> For an example of using Leaflet (usually used for working with maps) in >> this way checkout NYTimes Machine Beta: >> >> http://apps.beta620.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/20/issue.html >> >> //Ed >> >> On Nov 8, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> We are in the process of migrating our digital collections from CONTENTdm >>> to Omeka and are trying to figure out what to do about the compound >> objects >>> -- the vast majority of which are digitized books. >>> >>> The source files are actually hi res tiffs but since ginormous objects >>> broken into hundreds of pieces (each of which can be well over 100MB in >>> size) aren't exactly friendly to use, we'd like to stitch them into >>> individual pdf's that can be viewed more conveniently >>> >>> My game plan is to simply have a script pull the files down as jpegs >> which >>> can be fed to imagemagick which can theoretically do everything I need. >>> However, I've never actually done anything like this before, so I wanted >> to >>> see if there's a method that people have used for combining lots of >> images >>> into pdfs that works particularly well. Thanks, >>> >>> kyle >> > >