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Zoomify
Posted by Lucas Hare on 13 December 2009 - 9:30pm.
I was made aware of this programme on this very site, back when we were all invited to zoom in on Mick Jones' collection of bits and bobs.
I'm trying to use it now to share a photo of a document with my uncle in France, and...well, it's doing my head in, to be frank. I like to think that I'm reasonably computer literate, but I'm lost.
If anyone has any experience of using this successfully on a Mac, I'd be very grateful if they could pass on an idiot's guide on how to publish one bloody photograph. I feel frustrated and stupid.
Thanks, Massive.
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Are you sure Zoomify is what you need?
Zoomify is for online use, to allow you to publish a picture that's, say, 2000 pixels wide, in a website template that's only 400 pixels wide. You're not really zooming in on the picture, you're dragging it around within those 400 pixels while viewing it at its original resolution. So unless you're publishing the picture on a website, where space is at a premium, there's no need to use it at all. And whether you're using a PC or a Mac is irrelevant, because the Zoomify software sits on the web server of the site in question.
Hmmm.
Maybe you're right, Fraser (and thanks so much for your prompt reply; and on a Sunday evening too!). Basically it's a sort of family tree type document which can't be effectively read from a simple photograph. I was hoping that some programme could work its hi-res magic or something, and my uncle could go online and study it to his heart's content. If Zoomify isn't what I'm after, do you have any tips? And then I'll leave you alone, I promise.
Depends
On the size of the document, and what format you have it in. If it's on a large bit of paper, you can probably scan it in sections, then stick the outputted files together to produce a single, very large photo. Something like Hugin can be used to stitch the various bits together pretty seamlessly.
Thanks, Fraser
I'll look into it. Thanks again.