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Use High-res Images on Your Website

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PCQ Bureau
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Web pages containing high-resolution images often take considerable time to

open. Zoomify EZ not only opens the Web pages quickly but also zooms a

particular portion of the image with ease. Viewing these web pages is fast and

interactive because each view that the visitor zooms and pans is of only small

image tile. Zoomify EZ includes drag-and-drop image conversion and Flash-based

zoom-and-pan view. It also includes a Zoomify Converter, which is available for

Windows and Macintosh platforms only.

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Applies To:

Web Designers and Flash Developers



Price:
Free



USP:
Zoom and view details of roads, maps and places



Primary Link:
zoomify.com



Google Keyword:
zoomify

Zoomify EZ can be downloaded from zoomify.com. For Windows and Macintosh

users, zEZV3-Win.zip and zEZv3-Mac.sit files respectively are available.

Unziping or expanding these downloaded files creates a Zoomifyer EZ v3.1

directory, which contains a Converter and Zoomify Viewer.swf.

Zoomify EZ comes with a

Converter to convert high-resolution images into small tiles of .jpg files

and Zoomify Viewer.swf, a small flash program, for viewing the images
For converting an image into jpg

tiles, click and drag the image file into Zoomify Converter or double click

on the converter and open the image file you want to convert
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The Zoomify Converter creates

one or two directories



depending on the no. of tiles and stores all .jpg tiles into the directories

The directory contains tiles of

different resolutions. When a zoomable image is viewed, the .jpg files are

downloaded as the browser zooms and pans using the Zoomify Viewer
A second directory gets created

if the no. of files exceeds 256. Zoomify usually works with .jpg files, but

can be modified to work with other files through Flash player support
When you open zoomable image in

a web page, it looks like a normal page with a picture. You can move the

image up and down or right and left using the slide bar below the image

When you click anywhere on the

image, the portion gets zoomed for view. Else you can use the arrow keys for

panning and shift and control keys for zooming in and out
The image shown here is zoomed

approximately to 50% . The size of the source image and that of the intended

display area mark the extent to which you can zoom an image
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