Re: why can't feh view tiff images

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Lic. Orestes leal wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:48:40 +0200
> Samuel Bächler <linux@boeser.ch> wrote:
>
> > > I'm using feh to view most the images that I have but whenever I try
> > > to open a tiff file using feh, it just shows a blank black screen.
> > > Any ideas? I read up on the documentation but could not find  
> > > anything
> > > saying that tiff is not supported.
>
> This behavior must be that feh was build without suppport for tiff  
> or there is some problem
> with libtiff.

There are also multiple forms of TIFF file -- TIFF is sort of a  
container format, a little like AVI, and more than one type of  
encoding can be used inside it.  Not every reader can read every  
type.  LZW compression is the most common, but I've seen others.   
Some Windows software produces JPEG-compressed TIFFs.