*** Bug 676295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I had to look into this.

The error string comes from ev-window.c, where it uses ev_document_check_dimensions() to check if any dimension of the image is 0. 
The document's dimensions for TIFF files are set in tiff-document.c, where tiff_document_get_page_size() queries the image width and lenght, then uses the resolution returned by tiff_document_get_resolution() to scale the image - that is, it multiplies the lenght with the x_res/y_res ratio. The latter can be zero, and thus one of the image dimensions too. 
The problem is in tiff_document_get_resolution(), because it first gives default values to the x and y variables, then overwrites them with the values the TIFF image contains. 
Some TIFF generating software set resolution incorrectly to `0 , 0` (Irfanview in particular - the document in this bug, then the one in the duplicate #676295 and the "first Google hit for `multipage tiff sample image`" document at http://www.nightprogrammer.org/wp-uploads/2013/02/multipage_tif_example.tif were all generated with it).

So I think the solution could be to query the TIFF for its resolution, then check if the value is nonsense like 0, and in this case use some sane defaults.

Created attachment 288196 [details] [review]
First try to use sane defaults

First try to solve the problem. I'm not sure what happens if the TIFF is indeed garbage, i.e. the 0 resolution is correct, so more checks on that may be necessary. But the sample documents are displayed correctly this way, so at least a start :).

Review of attachment 288196 [details] [review]:

Thanks for the patch, I've just pushed it with the suggestion I mention below.

::: backend/tiff/tiff-document.c
@@ +193,3 @@
+	if ( (int) y == 0 ) {
+		y= 72.0;
+	}

Why do you need the casts?

@@ +197,2 @@
 	*x_res = x;
 	*y_res = y;

I would simplify this doing something like:

*x_res = x > 0 ? x : 72.0;
*y_res = y > 0 ? y : 72.0;

Hi Carlos

Thank for the review and commit. I'm not that good at coding, so thanks for the changes, it's better this way.