[Commons-l] TIFF support is coming!

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The objectivehere  is NOT to have PNG but to  support TIFF. This is what
gets us credibility with our partners. This is what gives us the provenance
that we care about representing material as it has been given to us. In this
urging the use of PNG in stead of TIFF is counter productive.
Thanks,
     GerardM

2009/9/12 peter green <plugwash at p10link.net>

>
> >> I don't suppose there's any easy way to use an automatic jpg
> >> thumbnail....... but only if the browser appears not to have an
> >> appropriate plug-in for displaying tiffs inline.
> >>
> >
> > The DjVu and PDF handlers provides thumbnails as jpgs.
> >
> > I would expect that the TIFF handler will also do this, otherwise it
> > will not integrate with the Proofread Page extension.
> >
> On a related note is there any chance of getting the ability to specify
> thumbnail formats when adding an image to a page and/or determining what
> format to use huristically? We already support png which is a lossless
> format with wide support and better compression than TIFF but if you
> upload a photo as a png at the moment the thumbnails will also be pngs
> which is generally bad.
>
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