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
>>
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