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Title:
  Eog is unable to display multipage TIFF but is the default viewer for
  TIFF files

Status in Eye of GNOME:
  Confirmed
Status in eog package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in eog package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in eog package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: eog

  Eye of gnome, the default image viewer of Ubuntu, open only the first
  page of a multi page TIFF image, hiding from end user existence of
  other pages.

  After a little research I've found the this bug have a long story: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132276
  Upstream this bug was not fixed because this feature was implemented in Evince, the generic document viewer used by default also by Ubuntu... but for me, and I think also from all other *end users* this is a non sense because evince in Ubuntu is not associated to open by default TIFF files so *end users* who receives a multi page TIFF doesn't know that this TIFF are multi page because EOG completely hide this information, showing only the first page :( 

  Same consideration are reported also here:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=385781

  I think we need to move forward with a simple and function solution.
  For example I propose:
  - make Evince default viewer for TIFF images
  - make Evince default viewer only for multi page TIFF images (it's possible without adding more and more code?)
  - adding analogue feature to EOG (maybe using partial code from evince)
  - EOG should inform in it's gui that this TIFF has more pages and should provide a link to open it

  
  Eye of GNOME 2.30.0
  Ubuntu Version 10.04

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