"Serge Baltic" <nsr@hypersw.net> wrote in message
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>[> By default, a tif image cannot be viewed in IE. Therefore, you had
> [> better convert the tif image to other format like jpg first.
> TIFF is lossless in most cases. So PNG seems to be a better thing as it's
> lossless as well, while auto-converting to JPEG may affect the image
> quality.
>
> [> I am
> [> afraid there is no a way to show tif in ASP.NET directly.
>
> Seems to me that .NET has built-in support for TIFF (as there's such thing
> as ImageFormat.Tiff), so you can convert it even on-the-fly using ASPX by
> loading the TIFF into a Bitmap object and then converting it into a stream
> of PNG format, and setting all the response headers to a format
> appropriate, of course. But that's a significant load on the server, so I
> wouldn't do it on a regular basis.
>
> (H) Serge
>
>