From LQWiki

The tagged image file format is a graphics file format designed to be extensible and backwards-compatible. It consists of a header (IFH) followed by a variable number of tagged IFD data blocks which contain both the image data and information about the image, or metadata. It can contain several pages and is especially used for transmitting faxes. To view a TIF file, convert it to a jpg file

convert whatever.tif whatever.jpg

And view it in konqueror

konqueror whatever.jpg

See also

• graphics file format
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIF
• TIFF viewing software
• TIFF conversion software