Anthony wrote:
On 10/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I just tried uploading a 12MB TIFF (a scan directly from the Library of Congress) to Commons. It waited until the whole 12MB had uploaded, of course, to tell me it didn't want it.
- Is there any reason TIFF is off the allowed media types list?
- Is there any way for the software to say "no" earlier in the
process of making a huge upload?
Tim Starling might know more about 1). See http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Tim_Starling/ScanSet_TIFF_demo
ScanSet is a one-off hack which presents a scan of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, one page per file. It doesn't do on-the-fly conversion to PNG, we just converted the whole image set as a batch process.
Support for uploaded TIFF files would be a very similar problem to the OggHandler extension I recently wrote.
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
FWIW, The djvu is just a ton better for those files:
EB8A200.djvu 82,927 bytes EB8A200.tif 295,912 bytes
Not to mention the fact that we already have DjVu support in MediaWiki. Does anyone have a suggestion for a TIFF to DjVu conversion method?
-- Tim Starling