Prizm ActiveX Viewer

Adds document viewing to Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. Displays TIFF, PDF, CAD and many other images with one viewer.
Prizm ActiveX Viewer displays images your browser can't. Comprehensive viewing features go beyond common display tools (zoom, rotate, pan), to add thumbnail navigation, poster printing, image export, and many others. With Prizm ActiveX Viewer you can attach comments (annotations) to any file without changing the original. Extensive configuration options let you customise your toolbars, menus, initial display settings, etc.

Prizm ActiveX Viewer is available in the following editions:

Prizm ActiveX Viewer for Users: View documents and images from within Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Mozilla browsers.

• View many document types using one interface, including PDFs
• Print, export and e-mail documents
• Easily navigate large documents and image sets
• Annotate documents without modifying the original file

Prizm ActiveX Viewer for Admins: Enterprise tools for browser-based document delivery . Deliver documents from your ECM or DMS to end-users using Prizm Viewer. For business process managers and system administrators.

• Package groups of documents for users
• Control the user viewing experience
• Centrally store annotations
• Deploy using Web or Enterprise installation options
• Build collaborative document workflows

Prizm ActiveX Viewer - Features

The Prizm Viewer provides powerful browser-based image display, annotation, manipulation, navigation, and printing of document images. View single and multi-page TIFF G3/G4, PDF, JPEG, BMP, PCX, DCX, CALS, JEDMICS image file formats and more, through Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers with exceptional image display speed and quality.

The customizable toolbar is filled with tools to annotate, hyperlink, add notes, zoom, spot magnify, and rotate. Centralized control over the Prizm Viewer configuration allows enterprises to use the same viewer to serve multiple departments or user groups with appropriate tools.

Windows XP2 Update - Microsoft Windows XP SP2 is supported in the current version, minimizing the impact to end users by pre-configuring HTML and executables used by the Prizm Viewer as approved.

Features

• Cross platform support:
  • Windows 98 or above (Windows 2000, XP or above for PDF support)
  • Mac, UNIX
• Browser Requirements for Windows
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 or above
  • Netscape Navigator 4.5 - 4.7x or 7.0 and above
• Customer-acclaimed technical support
• Free trial version available for immediate download
• Installed within Internet Explorer and Netscape

Multiple Image File Formats

• PDF
• Adobes PDF technology is utilized for full single and multi-page PDF support
• Open, View, Annotate, and Print PDF files
• Choose when to use the Prizm Viewer to display PDF files
• Optimize delivery of PDF documents from web-based document management systems
• A custom PDF MIME type is supported to use the Prizm Viewer for delivery of PDF files from the server without the use of Image List Files
• Use the same annotations feature for both TIFF and PDF images
• Choose whether PDF files will be viewed as color or bitonal images for use with the Viewer using Preferences
• Choose how annotations in PDF files are handled (burn them into the image or ignore them) using Preferences
• TIFF (single and multiple page, stripped, and tiled) in these formats:
• Uncompressed
• Modified Huffman
• Group 3 1D & 2D
• Group 4
• PackBits
• JPEG
• Military/Government Specific formats:
• NIRS/NIFF
• C4 (JEDMICS)
• CALS Type 1 (Group 4)
• CALS Type 2 (TRIF)
• JPEG (Baseline DCT)
• GIF
• PCX/DCX
• BMP
• File Association
• Set file associations in the Preferences dialog
• Choose which types of files will be associated with the Prizm Viewer within Internet Explorer
• Specify different associations for local images than for images transferred from the Internet

Virtual Multi-Page Document

• Image List Files offer the convenience of a multi-page TIFF file
• Create "virtual documents" from individual images so you can treat them as multi-page images
• Quickly view a series of documents as if it were a single multi-page TIFF file
• Batch print large collections of documents without having to view each document
• Customizable lists of images mimics a multi-page image file that can be paged through
• Page through using:
• Next/previous page
• First/last page
• Go to a specific page
• Delivers all the convenience of a multi-page TIFF file without the bandwidth requirements of downloading multi-page TIFF files

Large Image Support

The Prizm Viewer has long been known for its excellent support of large images, especially those used in engineering environments.

• Handles images as large as 50 x 333
Caches images (partially or completely) for instantaneous rescaling Handles up to 4000 tiles of different compression types and dimensions, including null tiles Birds Eye View (reference window) indicates your current position on the image while remaining zoomed in to a particular area (see example)
• Magnifying Glass lets you dynamically magnify a particular area of an image (great for tracing wires)
• Print Acceleration can print large size engineering drawings to Postscript printers up to 80% faster that the same files printed through a standard Windows driver
• Optional Roll Form Printing - For users with Postscript roll form printers, this option can make it easier to print large engineering drawings by designating the paper roll and allowing the Prizm Viewer to calculate the correct length and width for the drawing.
• Segmented printing support allows users to print extremely large engineering drawings over multiple pages

Enhance Image Display Quality

• Improve both color and bitonal (black/white) images
• Smooth out the blockiness that often occurs with highly-magnified images, over compressed, or poorly scanned documents
• Bitonal images:
• Scale-to-gray (4 shades or 16 shades)
• Draft, normal, or high quality
• Invert colors
• Color images:
  • Color smoothing (low, medium, high)
  • Normal or high quality

Annotations

• Collaborate on document images using annotations
• Annotate multiple types of documents (i.e. PDF and TIFF) with the same annotation set
• Permissions to view, edit, print and delete annotations
• Move, resize and edit annotations
• Create, save and easily edit annotations later
• Hide & show annotations with a single click
• Multiple annotation types
• Boxes or ellipses - hollow or filled
• Lines - with or without arrows
• Highlighting - yellow transparent background
• Stamp Annotations - rectangular or ellipse stamp annotations with customizable text and automatic date fill
• Text - format font, size, color and much more
• Associated notes - you can associate a note with the annotations above
• Pop-up notes - a handy notepad icon opens and accepts large amounts of text, then returns to the small icon shape (simply click the icon to view the text)
• Check for annotations - save time by switching off the annotation checking feature
• Annotations can be saved locally and/or to the server
• Send annotations to server, including secure servers
• Samples included: CGI & ASP annotation server examples to facilitate deployment, allowing you to extend the capabilities of your web server to support annotation permissions. These samples provide a framework that can be customized to your organization's needs.
• Hyperlink images, text, and websites
• Hyperlink documents to other URLs to associate document images, such as diagrams, service instructions, parts manuals, engineering drawings, contracts, web site information

Manage User Permissions & Preferences

• Configure and save preferences according to user needs, at either the administrator level or the user level
• Flying magnifier - size and magnification factor
• Types of image enhancements - apply to bitonal and color images independently
• Initial style of display - (full image, full width, actual size) apply to bitonal and color images independently
• Annotation settings - default color, line width, arrow style, font, etc.
• Left mouse button actions:
• Mark a selection
• Zoom on selection
• Hand panning
• Flying magnifier
• Reference window (Bird's Eye View)
• Toolbar display - switch off/on
• Proxy Settings - identify a proxy server to use when accessing annotations or image file lists on the web
• Printing Preferences - identify how images should be printed (full image, actual size), activate accelerated print support, and specify header and footer text to be printed
• Customize the toolbar based on the needs of users
• Administrator can use embed tags, object tags and Image List Files to configure for different user groups
• One version of the Prizm Viewer can serve different departments with differing web-based viewing needs

Magnify, Rotate, Navigate, & Mirror

• Tools included to view finer detail of large images such as engineering drawings
• Zoom in, zoom out at any increment (25% default, configurable)
• Stretch box zooms on a selected portion of the image
• Flying Magnifier
• Works just like a magnifying glass over paper to magnify the area directly beneath the magnifier tool
• Bird's Eye View (reference window)
• Locate your current position on the image while zoomed in on a particular area of the image
• Navigate zoomed or large images in a variety of ways:
• Scrollbars move you around on the zoomed image
• Hand pan grabs the image and moves it around in the window
• Rotate the image 90 clockwise or counterclockwise
• Previous Page and Next Page traverse multi-page images
• Go To Page for precise navigation of multi-page images

Auto Orient Images for Printing

• Detect landscape images and prints them properly
• No need to specify landscape or portrait for your document images

Print Acceleration

• Accelerate printing for Postscript Level II printers
• Prizm Viewer's PostScript file is smaller than that generated by the printer driver
• Faster printing times
• Preference setting available within the Printing tab of the Preferences dialog to generate the PostScript for printing
• using the Prizm Viewer rather than the printer driver

Security Options

• American federal requirements such as HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley have prompted companies to provide new levels of security in imaging systems.
• Secure Server & Authenticated Server
  • Allows access to image files over servers requiring passwords and servers using cookies
  • View and print image list files even over secure and authenticated servers
  • ASP example included

Flexible Image Management Options

• Copy, Save, and Export images
• Save image files locally in PDF format, allowing users to share image files with external customers and suppliers in an easily viewed format
• Save PDF files with or without annotations or choose to translate annotations generated by the Prizm Viewer into PDF format annotations
• Mark a portion of an image
• Copy to clipboard (marked portion or entire image)
• "Save as" to a local file (Image List Files are automatically saved locally as multi-page TIFF files)
• "Export" image to a different file format