Tiff Plugin 0.3 review

Tiff Plugin is Mozilla/Netscape compatible plugin for viewing TIFF images. Its features include zooming, rotation, and a progress

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Vinay

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Tiff Plugin is Mozilla/Netscape compatible plugin for viewing TIFF images.

Its features include zooming, rotation, and a progress bar when downloading images. It is ideal for when available memory is limited.

Here are some key features of "Tiff Plugin":
Zoom in - keyboard shortcut '+'
Zoom out - keyboard shortcut '-'
Rotate anticlockwise - keyboard shortcut 'a'
Rotate clockwise - keyboard shortcut 'c'
Progress bar when downloading images

The plugin is available in .deb format for i386 and amd64 systems. So debian based systems can install with

dpkg -i mozilla-tiff-plugin-i386.deb
OR
dpkg -i mozilla-tiff-plugin-amd64.deb

For non debian based systems, the sources need to be compiled. For compiling the packages pkg-config, libgtk2.0-dev and mozilla-dev need to be installed. The steps to install the source would be

tar -zxvf mozilla-tiff-plugin.tar.gz
cd mozilla-tiff-plugin
make
make plugin
make install

The plugin has been tested on firefox and mozilla browsers.

What's New in This Release:
Multi-page tiff support was added.
Memory management was improved.