Description of problem: I'm raising this issue here because there's a serious usage problem for business users who have large collections of multi-page tiff scans and also want to be able to nicely display tiff photos. This problem results from the dichotomy of display of different types of tiff images between eye of gnome and evince. Many businesses have large collections of scanned documents in tiff multi-page fax format, but the default action in fedora for display of tiff images is eye of gnome which currently can only display the first page of such images, which seems to be a shortcoming in it. Evince can display multi-page tiff, so you might say to change the default program to display tiff to evince? Well that is possible, but then all tiff files including colour images are displayed with evince. Nautilus lets you choose the program to display tiff files with but other programs (eg thunderbird email) don't. If you choose evince as default viewer, the characteristics of evince aren't always really ideal for display of all images and eye of gnome is suited better to displaying some images. How can this issue be dealt with? Can eye of gnome be made configurable to exec another program eg evince when invoked with multi-page tiff files??? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.20.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Double click a multi-page tiff scan 2. Notice that eye of gnome cannot reproduce it Actual results: Inability to display the remainder of the image Expected results: Ability to display the full image Additional info:
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> How can this issue be dealt with? Can eye of gnome be made configurable to exec > another program eg evince when invoked with multi-page tiff files??? You could certainly write a small script or program that looks at the tiff in question, and runs evince if it is multi-page, and eog otherwise. You can then register that script as the default handler for all tiffs.
That sounds like a good idea, but what about the default behaviour for linux out of the box? It seems to me that the default behaviour should really be that the software that opens tiff files can display all types of tiff files. Presently there's a dichotomy between evince and eye of gnome where one has to be used to open some and the other has to be used to open others. I understand the two programs, but the end result is bad from a user perspective.
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