[SOLVED] Viewing Large tiff files.

Hi Arch Users!
I have a number of tif image files of scanned engineering documents that are fairly large (25MB+). Viewing them in Windows is not so much of a problem. However, they are illegible when viewed in GNOME's Document Viewer.
Is there any package official or in AUR that will allow me to open these documents correctly.
Regards
JLight
Last edited by jlight2011 (2012-04-26 13:03:41)

Trilby wrote:There are many. I'd start with feh, but you'll really need to give more information on what you're looking for if you want useful recommendations.
Just installed feh. Tried opening but it would not show the drawings, No error or such just plane white background.
All I want to do is open the scanned engineering documents and zoom into specific parts, nothing more. In Gnome Document viewer, the drawings are barely visible. If I zoom it does not improve. I can see an outline but cant read any useful information like the dimension of hole.
In feh the document opens (the CPU is working hard the fan becomes really loud) but that is it. I waited for 5 min and gave up.
I have a DELL XPS (about 4 months old). intel i7, 8GB RAM.
In windows the document viewer cant open these also. I used to use a program, whose name I cant recall except that it had 'tiff' in it.
Please tell me if you need more specific info.
Cheers!
J

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