[Commons-l] TIFF support is coming!

[Daniel Kinzler]

Federico Leva (Nemo) schrieb:
> John Vandenberg, 12/09/2009 01:23:
>> This is most relevant for Wikisource (of course..;-) .  Many people
>> walk away from Wikisource because they cant grapple with this DjVu
>> format we love.
> 
> Even with DjVu, the 100 MB limit is often too low: how can TIFF be 
> useful with multi-paged huge documents?

I don't think we'll see very many huge TIFF files. But generally, uploading very
large files is possible by doing a server side import. Setting up a process for
this, and perhaps some nice tools, is something I have been thinking about.
perhaps we'll offer a contract for that next year :)

-- daniel