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+1 for the viewer concept, and I'll add that viewing & downloading meet different needs and should both be offered if possible. (said because of recently having had to download huge PDFs just to glance at a few pages). kc On 11/8/13 11:10 AM, Edward Summers 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 -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet