It's *could* - problem I've always found is
that tools to handle multi-
image TIFF files are pretty thin on the ground; they either don't bother
at all (and assume one image per file) or they try and buffer the whole
lot into memory (for 100 A4 page scans in one file, that's Not A Good
Thing). Only about 20% of tools I've come across over the years actually
try and handle TIFFs properly (as I've said in the past, even
Imagemagick isn't great because it buffers data to 32-bit colourspace in
memory regardless of the actual images' bit depth)
The spectacular badness of TIFF viewers (at least at the free-as-in-beer
level) is why I prefer PDFs. Despite their problems, the PDF viewers seem
*way* better at rendering (and printing) the pages. (Though I am sure there
are other platforms which have no decent PDF viewer.)
Vince