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| Converter Upgrades | Special formats, command-line, and tiled input |
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This page presents Zoomify Converter
upgrade alternatives - input, processing, and output options
- that are useful to imaging enthusiasts, web professionals,
and vertical market experts with special needs. The Zoomify Converter intelligently converts any image for incremental on-demand access. It creates a collection of image pieces at many levels of resolution - a "pyramid of tiles". The Zoomify Image Viewer is then able to download the specific tiles that are needed for the current view - the part of the image that fits in the display at the disired degree of zoom. As included in our products, the Zoomify Converter supports input source images in TIF, PNG, BMP, and JPEG formats. Images must use the RBG color model rather than CMYK. The Converter is a dual-threaded, 32-bit application, available for Macintosh and Windows platforms. It has no size limit for input source image files and requires no key or other registration process. In addition, the Converter is able to convert between Zoomify formats - from Zoomify Folder storage to ZIF, and vice versa. No tile decoding/encoding is required, so quality is not impacted and the process is very fast. There are, however, capabilities some customers may require that the standard Zoomify Converter does not possess. The following upgrade options are designed to meet such needs. |
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| Specifications |
Conversion is optimized to run entirely in memory whenever possible! When running entirely in memory, conversion speeds can be expected to be up to twice as fast for JPEG source images and up to three times as fast for TIF source images. For files many gigabytes in size (uncompressed), where sufficient memory is not available, the Converter will write to disk as required. Supported input formats include: TIF, PNG, BMP, JPEG, as well as BigTIFF, tiled TIF and multi-file input via text list input (ACI text format). If support for other input formats is required please contact us. Supported output formats include: Zoomify Image Folder and Zoomify Image File (ZIF). Zoomify output formats also supported as inputs to enable optimized conversion of content libraries. Note: activation key input required on first use.
All the features of all of the above Zoomify Turbo Converter editions plus NO activation key requirements and NO license restrictions. This offering delivers complete control without limitations. For complete details please contact us.
The following conversion scripts were created by Zoomify customers or partners and have been used by many customers with success. They are useful in contexts requiring custom functionality, deep integration with server-side scripts, or on Linux/Unix. Options include use various scripting language/image library combinations: PERL/ImageMagick, PHP/GD-Library, and Python/PIL/Zope. In some cases wrappers are providing in one language for conversion in another. Users of other scripting languages and image libraries will find these examples useful as well because they represent codebase starting points that can be ported. In addtion, notes are provided regarding incremental source image access (see the last item below). Limitations: The script-based conversion solutions included are capable of generating Zoomify Images in folder-based form. They do not currently support creation of Zoomify images in the ZIF or PFF single-file formats. Additionally, as scripted solutions these Converter alternatives are not expected to perform as quickly as a compiled application. Some will also likely require greater memory resources as they do not incrementally load source image data, but rather, load the entire source image into memory (these are therefore appropriate, if not further enhanced, only for images tens or hundreds of megabytes in size, not gigabytes in size. Please also note: these scripted conversion options were created by customers or partners of Zoomify and Zoomify has not reviewed or tested them. If you encounter any difficulties or have any suggestions we are happy to receive your input. The conversion scripts below have been approved for use with the Zoomify Viewer.* If you have additional resources that should be included here please contact us!
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| PRODUCT DELIVERY NOTE: Upon purchase of any of these special Converter
Upgrade products, you will will receive a confirmation email. You
will then receive a second email message with your application download
link and activation key - within 72 hours. MOVING A CONVERTER TO A NEW MACHINE: Moving a Converter from one
machine to another requires first unregistering the activation key.
Turbo and non-Turbo Converters use completely separate activation
key systems. For Turbo Converters, unregister a key using the -u parameter.
For non-Turbo Converters please contact Support and the key will be
manually unregistered on the key server. In both cases, re-registering
the Converter on the new machine then requires reusing the -r parameter
as described above. |
