Todd Cary said:
My task is to present to lawyers, handling a large class action
case, TIFF images of the claimant's application that have been
converted to pdf's. The lawyer has selected the claim number from
a database of 800,000 the "scan" of the submitted claim. So the
user has already decided to view the image. Now I need to present
the image to the user (lawyer).
So is this about images or about PDF?
Anyway, if it's about a database query, then the server-side script
that performs the query could pick up the right image, or the right PDF
document, and send _it_ as the response. No reason to involve HTML.
However, such systems are normally built so that the query response is
an HTML document, containing texts (or, if you prefer, images, but you
can't really use TIFF images as embedded into HTML) that are links to
PDF documents.