convert tiff to tiff with text added error

[anthony]

Read the image first. then -annotate the text onto the image.
See IM Examples, Text to Image handling, annotate.

As for the TIFF error... TIFF is a BAD format in that no program (not even photoshop) can handle all the internal format styles TIFF can use.

So my advise. Avoid it.

if you can't avoid it, look at IM examples, Image File Formats, TIFF notes
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#tiff

PS; it is probably the -compress setting that is bad for that viewer.
That however is a guess on my part.