Echo the above sentiments, and would also mention the Open 
Library/Internet Archive book reader[1]. We use it in Islandora[2] with 
Djatoka.

-nruest

[1] https://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader
[2] 
http://sandbox.islandora.ca/islandora/object/islandora%3A40#page/1/mode/2up

On 13-11-08 02:38 PM, Simeon Warner wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
>>