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The ImageFolio Zoomify Plug-In makes high-quality images zoom-and-pan for fast
interactive viewing on the web. The ImageFolio Zoomify Plug-In accomplishes this feat by
converting images in standard formats such as TIF, BMP, and JPEG into pieces -
just like the tiles of a mosaic. These pieces are actually created for views of
the image at many different resolutions or levels of zoom. The pieces can then
be loaded on-demand, so that wherever a users zooms and pans, their view is
always sharp and clear.
Zoomify's zoom-and-pan viewing offers tremendous value to diverse applications.
The ImageFolio Zoomify Plug-In is useful for include photos,
scans, maps, screenshots, pdf documents, maps, drawings, and composites.
The ImageFolio Zoomify Plug-In conversion process coupled with the Zoomify viewing approach yields
the following benefits:
- Smallest possible downloads: Common web page implementations involving a
thumbnail with a link to a large image file require the download of the entire
image even if only a portion of it is of interest or if the majority of it won't
fit in the page. With Zoomify, image data is never downloaded until the user
decides to view it.
- No redundant downloads: Image data is never delivered twice. Multi-level
server-side and client-side caching ensures that whatever is requested from
the web server is available for subsequent requests, and whatever is downloaded
to the viewer is ready for immediate reuse if the user views any part of the
image twice.
- Instant display: Zoomify's requests for image 'tiles' are based a simple and
consistent naming convention. This ensures an instant initial view by avoiding
the need to download a large index of tile offset data.
- Fully-distributed processing: With Zoomify, all logic including
identification of the current view, the needed tiles, and any offset information,
occurs in the Zoomify Viewer on the end-user's computer. This completely
distributed processing ensures your web server is able to handle the maximum
possible site visitors with the minimum possible effort and no slow-downs as
users enjoy zoom-and-pan access to your image content.
Applications and Markets include:
- Education and Entertainment
- Museum, Galleries and Image Archives
- High Resolution Photography
- Wireless and Handhelds
- Mapping, GIS, Real Estate & Travel
- Aerial Photos and Space Imaging
- eStore, eCatalog, and eMarketing
- Medical and Scientific
- Defense, Security and Infrastructure
- Insurance, Law Enforcement and Forensics
- Industrial Quality Assurance
- Materials Science and Metallurgy
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