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I’m having trouble understanding who the user of this content you are putting into Omeka is, and what you are expecting them to do with it. But, ok … //Ed On Nov 8, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[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? >> >> > This should be pretty easy. But the issue with tiling is that the nav > process is miserable for all but the shortest books. Most of the people who > want to download want are looking for jpegs rather than source tiffs and > one pdf instead of a bunch of tiffs (which is good since each one is > typically over 100MB). Of course there are people who want the real deal, > but that's actually a much less common use case. > > As Karen observes, downloading and viewing serve different use cases so of > course we will provide both. IIP Image Server looks intriguing. But most of > our users who want the full res stuff really just want to download the > source tiffs which will be made available. > > kyle