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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 >>> >> >>