The folder tree gives you a hierarchical view of the folders accessible to you in the eRez browser. Click on individual folder names to display their content in the Content frame .

With eRez 5 there is now both a Flash based Tree View and an Ajax based Tree view. In the following we will describe the Ajax based Tree View, however the Flash based tree view is very similar.

	Reloads the list and collapses the tree This Server is the top level of the tree and will show the name of your eRez server
	Expands a level in the tree
	Expands the level in the tree and updates the Content frame
	Contracts the level in the tree
	Updates the Content frame

Content frame

The content frame displays images and subfolders in the current folder you are viewing, the result of a search, a list of files ready for download or the images you have selected.

What you view in the content frame depends on the mode of your navigator .

When displaying a folder in eRez you are viewing small thumbnails of the images available in that folder. You can change the layout of the content frame - the number of images displayed on a page – by adjusting the size of thumbnails in the lower right corner. If you resize your browser window the number of thumbnails in the content frame will also change.

Scrolling through pages

eRez shows the images in a given folder as pages. The number of pages displayed depends on the amount of images and folders as well as the layout selected. In the example below, page 8 is viewed, and there are a total of 14 pages. You can scroll back and forth between pages by clicking on the

and

buttons, or by selecting a specific page to view. The number of the current page viewed is displayed in bold.

List parent folder

To move up one level in the tree hierarchy click on the List parent folder. Both the content frame and content info is updated.

Selecting and viewing individual images

Move your mouse over a thumbnail in the content frame and eRez makes a slight zoom into the image. This feature makes it obvious what image you are currently viewing. If you keep the mouse over the same image for a few seconds, a larger version is also displayed in the content info frame.

If you check an image

from the list it is added to your selections.

Great tip: If you hold down your SHIFT key and click on the

box beneath the thumbnail you automatically selects ALL images in that folder. If you want to deselect all images hold down your SHIFT key again and click on the

. For more information on selections, please go to The selection tab .

If you click on an image you will be able to see the image and all the information available about that image in the whole content frame.

In this example we are viewing an image from a desert. If you would like to see more details in the sand, you can click anywhere in the image to zoom into it.

Hint: If you want to view the image in the whole content frame – without all the image information - please click on "view" icon in the navigator top.

If you are running on a FSI Viewer supported eRez Server you will see the image in the FSI Viewer. Please refer to the FSI Viewer section for information about navigating in the FSI Viewer.

If you don't have FSI viewer enabled, you can reload the image click on the

button underneath the image.

Click on the

in the top left corner of the content frame to return to the list of thumbnails.

Clipping path info - if available - can be seen underneath the image.

A camera or a scanner stores information about an image. eRez extracts this information from the image and displays it to you when you are viewing the image. Some information, such as File: Preview: and Image: will always be there. Depending on information stored within the image, other types of information will also be displayed. Such information can be IPTC as described later or EXIF data. EXIF stands for Exchangeable Image File Format, and is a standard for storing interchange information in image files, especially those using JPEG compression. Most digital cameras now use the EXIF format.

If you want to know more about the information stored in images, please see the section on Edit Image Information .

Content Info frame

The content info frame displays information about folders or images depending on what is currently selected. If a folder is selected, eRez can display certain types of information or even an image to symbolize the folder. Typically eRez displays the name of the selected folder or associated notes .

If you place your mouse over an image, eRez will display a preview of that image after a few seconds delay. You can zoom into such a preview, exactly the same way you can when viewing an individual image. This can be quite handy for quickly browsing through images and perhaps looking for special details in an image.

Searching

You can search for images by entering one or more words in the search field and click on search. Searching refreshes the content frame, and displays the matching images sorted by relevance. The search engine within the eRez Server searches inside all image information and meta information. The eRez Server can even be configured for searches inside PDF documents. Special plug-ins can be developed for the eRez Server that allows users to search inside other types of documents. This however is special configuration and developments that varies from eRez server to eRez server.

The searches done by the eRez Server are very similar to the way search engines like Google or Yahoo searches for and displays results.

Advanced Searching

Like most of the advanced search engines you encounter on the Internet, the eRez Server also enables advanced searching capable of qualifying your search and results.

The words that you enter in the search field are called a "query". A query is broken up into terms and operators.

A term can be of two different types: Single Terms and Phrases.
- Single Terms is a single word such as "marketing" or "product".

marketing

- Single Terms is a single word such as "marketing" or "product".

"please note"

You can combine multiple terms with Boolean operators to form a more complex query. A Boolean operator is a logical operator that tells the eRez Servers search engine how terms and phrases should be combined to a more complex query. Boolean operators must be ALL CAPS (capital letters).

OR	The OR operator is the default conjunction operator. This means that if there is no Boolean operator between two terms, the OR operator is used. The OR operator links two terms and finds a matching document if either of the terms exist in a document. This is equivalent to a union using sets. The symbol \|\| can be used in place of the word OR. To search for documents that contain either "red flower" or just "carrot" use the query: "red flower" carrot or "red car" OR carrot
AND	The AND operator matches documents where both terms exist anywhere in the text of a single document. This is equivalent to an intersection using sets. The symbol && can be used in place of the word AND. To search for documents that contain "red car" and "green car" use the query: "red car" AND "green car"
+	The "+" or required operator requires that the term after the "+" symbol exist somewhere in a the field of a single document. To search for documents that must contain "tomato" and may contain "green" use the query: +tomato green
NOT	The NOT operator excludes documents that contain the term after NOT. This is equivalent to a difference using sets. The symbol ! can be used in place of the word NOT. To search for documents that contain "red car" but not "red carrot" use the query: "red car" NOT "red carrot"
-	The "-" or prohibit operator excludes documents that contain the term after the "-" symbol. To search for documents that contain "red car" but not "red carrot" use the query: "red car" -"red carrot"
Grouping	You can use parentheses to group clauses to form sub queries. This can be very useful if you want to control the boolean logic for a query. To search for either "red" or "car" and "website" use the query: (red OR car) AND website
	This eliminates any confusion and makes sure you that website must exist and either term red or car may exist.

It is also possible to qualify your search even more

Wildcard Searches	The term "wild card" originates from the card game of poker, where a card such as the Joker may by agreement represent any other card in the pack. A wildcard search uses a special symbol to allow you to search simultaneously for several words with the same term. You can use both single and multiple character wildcard searches.
?	To perform a single character wildcard search use the "?" symbol. It looks for terms that match that with the single character replaced. te?t
	Searches for both "text" and "test".
*	To perform a multiple character wildcard search use the asterix "" symbol. ad
	Will find results such as "badger", "around" and "bandstand". Please note that the search engine doesn't allow you to start with "". You can't search for ing".
Fuzzy Searches ~	To do a fuzzy search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a single word term. It finds spelling that is similar to the search term.
	roam~
	Will find terms like "foam" and "roams".
Proximity Searches ~	Finding words are a within a specific distance away is also supported. To do a proximity search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a Phrase.
	" european bison"~10
	This search will find a "bison" and "european" within 10 words of each other.
Boosting a Term ^	The search engine provides the relevance level of matching documents based on the terms found. To boost a term use the caret, "^", symbol with a boost factor (a number) at the end of the term you are searching. The higher the boost factor, the more relevant the term will be. Boosting allows you to control the relevance of a document by boosting its term. For example, if you are searching for bison european
	and you want the term "bison" to be more relevant boost it using the ^ symbol along with the boost factor next to the term. You would type:
	bison ^4 european
	Which will make images with the term bison appear more relevant?
	You can also boost phrase terms:
	" red car" ^4 " green car"
	By default, the boost factor is 1. Although the boost factor must be positive, it can be less than 1 (e.g. 0.2)
Escaping Special Characters \	You can escape special characters that are part of the query syntax. The current list special characters are + - && \|\| ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \ To escape these character use the \ before the character. For example to search for (1+1):2 use the query: \/1\+1)\:2

Navigator - actions in eRez

Navigator mode

The tabs on the Navigator bar at the top of the eRez browser displays different sets of actions.

	"List" tab displays the "File List", that is either the content of the last folder or a search result you viewed. If you click on a folder in the navigation tree the tab displayed will automatically be reset to "List".
	The "File" tab remembers the last individual file you either viewed or edited. If you are viewing or editing a file the tab displayed will be the "File" tab.
	The "Selected files" tab displays files you’ve selected by checking them . You can consider the images in selected files tab as a kind of "on-the-fly" folder, containing files you want to work with in some way. However, the files in the selection need not be "lost" when you log off. For more information please see selected files functions

Each tab also enables different functions. Whether a function is enabled or disabled depends on your previous actions and the privileges awarded you by the eRez server administrator.

The List tab - List files functions

When you are viewing the contents of folder eRez displays the List Navigator tab. Some of the functions found here are identical to what you find in the other tabs – however when in the List tab remember you are working at folder level. If you click on the List tab, you get the last folder viewed in the content frame.

The File tab - Individual file functions

The File tab concerns functions dealing with individual files, be they images or other file types such as Microsoft Word documents, PDF-files etc. If you click on the File tab you will automatically get the last file viewed in the content frame.

The selection tab - Selected files functions

The selection tab is a very special tool. When you are browsing through files on the eRez server you can mark individual files for selection by checking them underneath their thumbnails in the checkbox (

). Files you have selected can be viewed in the selection tab.

If you hold down your SHIFT key and click on the

box beneath the thumbnail you automatically selects ALL images in that folder. If you want to deselect all images hold down your SHIFT key again and click on the

. When you are viewing files in your selection you can therefore deselect them all this way.

Your selection of files can be considered as a kind of “on-the-fly” folder, where you collect all the files you want to do something with.

When you log off the selection is reset, however it need not be lost! A selection is actually saved on the eRez server with a special number. This means that it can be retrieved from the server again. One example of how access a selection is to send an email with a link to Selected Files. Another is to Publish Selection to Web . The html code you generate will retrieve the selection when you call that code.

As the selection behaves like a folder, many of the functions are similar to what you find in the List tab.

Hint for the very advanced user: In the html code generated when you publish to web the name of the query is stored as an item in the URL you call eRez with to retrieve your selection. This name can be extracted from the html code. Depending on whether you published as a slideshow, a FSI showcase etc. the keyname is called something with “query=”. The item after the key starting with a ~ and a long name is actually the name of the selection. Examples:

query=~a5e165514b9b0284de5b0f7dd3a2f82d
showcase_query=~a5e165514b9b0284de5b0f7dd3a2f82d

If you extract the ~a5e165514b9b0284de5b0f7dd3a2f82d you can later search for the selection with that name with the search function.

Start Slideshow

Start Slideshow. eRez offers you a very practical way of browsing through images in a folder or a selection - and in a format that makes viewing and evaluating images a breeze. The Slideshow runs through all images in a folder or a selection and displays them for roughly 10 seconds and then fade in the next image.

Slideshow without flash viewer

The content info frame also changes and displays some very handy slideshow navigation buttons. The left button takes you back to the previous image, the middle button pauses the slideshow and the right button forwards you to the next image.
To view the slideshow in full screen mode, just click on the current image displayed in the slideshow. To return from full screen mode to the eRez browser, again just click on the image.
If you want to return to viewing folder content, click on the List tab .

Slideshow with flash viewer

If you are running on an eRez system with flash enabled you will have slideshow navigation buttons within the slideshow. Move your mouse onto the upper left corner of the image being viewed, and the navigation bar appears.

Restarts the slideshow from the first image

Takes you on image back in the slideshow

Pauses the slideshow

Forwards you to the next image in the slideshow

Is the counter. You are now viewing image number 3 out of 21 images. The small blue dot within the counter lights yellow whenever the slideshow is ready with a new image for you to view.

Just click on the image being displayed in the slideshow to select and view the individual it. This also stops the slideshow.

Upload New Images

Publish Files to Web. If you are assigned upload privilege in the current folder you can add new images by "uploading them". You can also choose to create a new folder where new images will be placed.

If you are not privileged to upload to a folder the upload icon is "dimmed". If your session has timed out, you will see the following warning:


	ACCESS DENIED You do not have permission to perform the selected operation in this folder. You are not logged on. Log On Now Cancel Note that the system may have logged you off due to inactivity.

If you are privileged you will see the upload window.

Upload images to Upload here - unrestricted:

Image 1:
Image 2:
Image 3:
Image 4:
Image 5:

IPTC:

Caption :
Keywords :

Overwrite IPTC values
Email receipt to:	me@mySystem.com
Create New Folder:
ZIP Files:
Cancel Send Files

In this example, the current folder is called "Upload here - unrestricted" and you are about to upload images to that folder.

You can specify up to 5 uploads for each upload session.

You can opt to receive an Email receipt to a specified e-mail address here called me@mySystem.com.

You can opt to create a new folder, which automatically becomes a sub-folder to the current one. eRez will automatically place the files you specify to upload in this new folder. Please remember to check the "create new folder" option, and remember to specify the name of the new folder.

If you upload zip files:

Unpack Files. If you upload a ZIP archive, eRez will extract all the files and unpack it it the folder you upload to.
Unpack Files and Folders. If you upload a ZIP archive, eRez will unpack the files and folder structure and place it relative to the folder you are in. This means that if you have a folder structure, eRez can recreate it for you!
Leave as ZIP files. eRez will not unpack the ZIP file, but leave it as it is in the folder you upload to.

Finally you can add IPTC caption and keywords to your files. Caption is a textual description of the image. Keywords are used to indicate specific information retrieval words. Each keyword is separated by a line break.

Caution! Please be careful, if you check the box "Overwrite IPTC values" you will overwrite all IPTC information in your uploaded files, even IPTC information not included by the eRez server administrator in the upload menu. This is the same as clearing or deleting IPTC fields within the images not included in the upload menu.

What kind of files can be uploaded?

You can upload:

TIFF
FPX (FlashPix images)
PSD (Native Photoshop Images)
JPEG
GIF
EPS
PDF
AI (Adobe Illustrator Drawings)
SVG
CAD (DWG, DXF and DWF – AutoCad formats)
Plus additional formats which have been configured by the eRez server administrator.
A ZIP archive containing one or more of the above formats.
...Plus an additonal 500+ file formats. eRez will not be able to let you view or zoom into them, but you can store them on eRez. When viewing them in the content frame, or list tab you will see an icon representing the file format.

If you upload GIF, JPEG images or (TIFF images with no pyramid extensions) they are automatically optimized and converted by the eRez server to a TIFF image file with pyramid extensions. TIFF images with pyramid extensions as well as FlashPix images are not converted.

PSD files must be stored with “maximum compatibility” checked in order to be used with eRez. Since PSD files only contain a single resolution, eRez will automatically create the missing resolutions and store them in a hidden preview file. Until this process has been completed the image may temporarily show up as a grey box.

EPS, PDF and Adobe Illustrator files normally contain vector based graphics or line art used in logos and such. eRez will automatically try to create a preview of the first page for your EPS, PDF and Adobe Illustrator files if your server administrator has installed Ghostscript and configured eRez to use it. Otherwise if a TIFF preview exists inside an EPS file it will be shown as a thumbnail or when viewing a file. Otherwise a generic icon will be shown instead of the thumbnail for EPS, PDF and Illustrator files.

In SVG and the other vector based formats such as DWG, DXF and DWF eRez saves the original files but creates SVG based previous for when you view the files as thumbnails.

When you have specified files to upload, click on the Send Files. The following message will appear in the upload window:

Uploading your files.

Please do not close this window until the transfer is complete.

2% transfered ( 2.44 MB of 82.61 MB)

Cancel Upload

As noted in the window it is important that you do not close the window! Otherwise your upload transfer is disrupted and no files are transferred.

As noted in the window it is important that you do not close the window! Otherwise your upload transfer is disrupted and no files are transferred.

The files you uploaded do not become visible in the tree view and content frame before you refresh the windows. To refresh, click on the File list tab in the Navigator frame. If you upload many images that need to be converted they will not appear until after the server conversion process has finished.

Why use TIFF images?

TIFF is an open standard and by far the most versatile, reliable, and widely supported image format in use. eRez utilizes the multi-resolution information standard created by Adobe in 1996 to build so called pyramid TIFF files. The most important characteristic of this format is that the image file is organized in a way that makes it possible to read parts of the image at various resolution levels very fast.

The pyramid TIFF format has been designed to be backwards compatible with other software packages. Although these packages might not be able to take advantage of the multi-resolution image data they will still be able to read the image at the full resolution. Even Adobe Photoshop itself is unable to take advantage of the sub-resolutions and will always read the full resolution.

Because JPEG files are single resolution files they should not be used with the eRez Imaging Server if they contain more than a few megabytes of uncompressed image data (low resolution files at screen resolution). Using higher resolution JPEG images will slow down the eRez Imaging Server considerably.

FlashPix is another multi-resolution format created by KODAK, HP and Microsoft. Some of the advantages of pyramid TIFF compared to FlashPix are the support for CMYK and ciLAB color spaces, support for 16-bit per channel data as well as support for embedded ICC profiles, transparency, Photoshop layers, clipping paths, IPTC and EXIF metadata. In addition pyramid TIFF supports lossless compression by means of LZW and ZIP.

A Pyramid TIFF file contains image data at multiple resolutions.

Edit Folder Information

Edit Folder . You can edit information about the current folder by clicking on the "Edit Folder Information" button in the Navigator frame. This assumes that you are privileged to edit the folder information. All first level folders – those directly underneath the root, can only be edited by the eRez administrator.

If you are not privileged to edit folder information, a warning is issued, telling you that access is denied.

Info for Folder: Samples/mirror image test pages:

Folder Name:	Mirror image test pages
Notes:	This folder contains low resolution variations of the same image in various color spaces. Demonstrates how colors are converted on-the-fly using ICC profiles.
Create New Folder:	Sub-folder
Move Folder	Cancel Save

As you can see you can edit the name of the folder, and additional notes to be displayed in the Content Info Frame. You can also create a new folder here.
The folder Notes are inherited by all the sub-folders. However, if you insert a new folder note for a sub-level folder, it of course, will take precedence.

Click on “Move Folder” in the lower left corner to move the folder and all its content to a new location. This will bring up a new page with a list of target folders. Click on a folder to complete the move.

Move Folder - Select Target Folder:

Destinations

Samples

3D Toy Car

Delete Folder

Delete Folder If you are privileged to do it, you can delete an entire folder and all of it's sub-folders. So if sub-folders to the folder you want to delete exist, you'll also delete all the sub-folders


	Are you sure you want to delete folder "Test" and all its content? This can not be undone Cancel Delete Folder

E-mail Folder

Email Folder When you e-mail a folder to someone you actually send them an e-mail with a link to the folder. In this example reinhard@yawah.com is sending a link to MImages to bisp@voldsomvolvo.com. The e-mail will contain the message and a hyperlink to the folder on the eRez server.

Mail a link to MyImages

To:	bisp@voldsomvolvo.com
Subject:	Link to Image Folder MyImages
From:	reinhard@yawah.com
Message:	Check these images out!
Cancel Send

Please notice! If the folder is not accessible for all: Remember to include access information to the folder in your e-mail message. Otherwise the recipient of your e-mail will be very frustrated when he or she is asked for username and password of which they have no knowledge.

Image Information

Show File InformationWhen you click on an image thumbnail in the content frame , the content frame will display the image and Image Information.

For further description please see the Selecting and viewing individual images section.

Preview Image

View File. The preview Image function enables you to view and specify the viewing of individual images.

If you are using the FSI viewer .

AJAX Viewer

If you are not using the FSI viewer, you will view the image with an Ajax viewer:

At the bottom of the viewer you’ll see the following options:

Reset image size

Zoom out of the image

Zoom into the image

If you have zoomed into the image you can click on the image to drag the area selected for viewing to another part of the image.

If you press this button in the top left corner you close the viewer and return to Image Information .

Download Image(s)

Download Menu

Advanced Options Download Original Open Original

Small (800x600)	JPEG	PDF
Medium (1024x768)	JPEG	PDF
Large (1400x1050)	JPEG	PDF

A5 Colour	JPEG	PDF
A5 Black & White	JPEG	PDF

A4 Colour	JPEG	PDF
A4 Black & White	JPEG	PDF

A5 Offset	EPS	PDF	JPEG	TIFF
A4 Offset	EPS	PDF	JPEG	TIFF

10x15 cm Photo Paper			JPEG	TIFF
15x20 cm Photo Paper			JPEG	TIFF
20x30 cm Photo Paper			JPEG	TIFF

Download Image is a powerful feature that lets you define what part of the image to retrieve from the eRez server as well as the format and quality of the downloaded image.

In the top left corner you can select part or the entire image to download. To "crop" an image simply drag the handles

in the image using the mouse to select the area that you want to download.

Drag the handles to resize the selection without altering the center.

To move the entire selection click on the inside of the select frame.

Additionally you can zoom in and out for a more precise selection using the buttons below the crop image. By pressing one of the mouse mode buttons (zoom, pan, rotate) you can choose the mouse function outside the selection.

Note: If your Browser does not support Flash you will get a simpler interface without the possibility to zoom, pan and rotate the selection.

If you want to download the whole image without cropping it, just leave the handles be.

eRez can create an endless number of derived variations from a single source image. Depending on how you are going to use an image you will need the image prepared with a size, resolution, format, sharpening and color definition that meets the requirement of the target medium and context. To avoid having to deal with all these details every time an image is downloaded eRez uses predefined templates with information about all the technical details for a specific medium. These templates can be added and modified by the server administrator.

Desktop Presentation (72 DPI) - for display on a computer screen, i.e. in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
Desktop Printing (144 DPI) - for printing on an office inkjet or laser printer.
Professional Printing (300 DPI) - for printing on professional 4 color printing presses.

The eRez server administrator may have configured your eRez server differently to better match the specific needs or your organization. The formats available on the standard download page should be configured to meet the day-to-day requirements. If you find that a particular format you need on a regular basis isn't available on the standard download page you should ask your server administrator to add it.

Choosing the right resolution: DPI is short for "Dots Per Inch" and defines the number of dots - or pixels - needed for each inch of paper or screen in order to get a good result. An image file at 300 DPI is roughly 18 times larger than an image with the same dimensions at 72 DPI and 4 times larger than an image with the same dimensions at 144 DPI.
Nothing is gained by working with an image with a resolution too high for the purpose. So pick the right resolution and save download time and storage space.

Download PDF files

If you download PDF files you will not see all these options. Downloading a PDF file gives you three options:

Download Original Adds the PDF file to the Download manager , where eRez prepares the makes a ZIP file containing the PDF file as well as a ZIP file with all your selected downloads.

Download Preview Takes you to the Download menu .

Open Original Lets you open the original PDF in your browser. If you have a PDF viewer installed the PDF viewer will open the PDF file, otherwise you are prompted to save the PDF file to your disk.

Advanced Options

You may need to enter the "Advanced Options" in situations where you need a slightly larger preview for more accurate cropping, need to rotate an image or want to override one or more of the settings for a particular template. In addition to cropping and rotation the "Advanced Options" allows you to choose an existing template and override the settings for ICC color profile, image file format, width, height and resolution.

Standard Options Download Original Open Original




Select Entire Image

Base Template:
ICC Profile:
Black Point Compensation:
Rendering Intent:
Format:
Rotate:
Width, Height:	, (pixels)
DPI:
Crop top,left:	0 , 0
Crop bottom,right:	1 , 1
Start Download

Base Template: Approx. 30 different base templates come pre-installed with the eRez server. The server administrator may however decide to make new ones available or delete some.

ICC Profile: eRez follows the color management conventions developed by the International Color Consortium (ICC). An ICC profile systematically describes how color numbers map to a particular color space, usually that of a device such as a scanner, printer, or monitor. From the ICC profile drop down menu you can choose between all of the ICC profiles available on the server. The professional printing standards used in Europe, USA and Asia all use different inks and different printing processes such as offset or gravure and therefore requires different ICC profiles as well.

eRez comes with the 3 generic profiles and 4 profiles CMYK offset printing as listed below. Chances are good that your server administrator has already added additional ICC profiles that match the CMYK printing standards used by your organization.

The generic profiles are:

Generic CMYK - a generic \"one-size-fits-all\" CMYK profile. Should only be used when no other ICC profile is available for professional printing.
Greyscale - a standard \"black & white\" profile for use with greyscale printers or a standard computer monitor.
sRGB - a standard RGB profile for use with a standard computer monitor.

The profiles for CMYK offset printing are:

ISO Coated - for offset printing on glossy or matte coated paper.
ISO Uncoated Yellowish - for offset printing on yellowish uncoated paper.
ISO Uncoated - for offset printing on white uncoated paper.
ISO Web Coated - for offset printing on light weight coated paper (LWC) used in web offset printing.

These CMYK profiles come from the European Color Initiative and follows the ISO 12647-2 standard. You can find more profiles on the European Color Initiative web site .

The ICC profiles that comes with Adobe Photoshop also covers the most common printing methods and is available for download at the Adobe Web site .

For general information on ICC profiles, visit the ICC (International Color Consortium) Web site .

Rendering Intent: The rendering intent determines how eRez handles the ICC color conversion. The rendering intent you choose depends on whether colors are critical in an image and on your preference of what the overall color appearance of an image should be.

You may choose from the following rendering intents:

Perceptual - Aims to preserve the visual relationship between colors so it''s perceived as natural to the human eye, even though the color values themselves may change. This intent is suitable for photographic images with lots of out-of-gamut colors.
Saturation - Tries to produce vivid colors in an image at the expense of color accuracy. This rendering intent is suitable for business graphics like graphs or charts, where bright saturated colors are more important than the exact relationship between colors (such as in a photographic image).
Relative Colorimetric - Compares the extreme highlight of the source color space to that of the destination color space and shifts all colors accordingly. Out-of-gamut colors are shifted to the closest reproducible color in the destination color space. Relative colorimetric preserves more of the original colors in an image than perceptual.
Absolute Colorimetric Absolute Colorimetric - Leaves colors that fall inside the destination gamut unchanged. Out of gamut colors are clipped. No scaling of colors to destination white point is performed. This intent aims to maintain color accuracy at the expense of preserving relationships between colors and is suitable for proofing to simulate the output of a particular device.

If you leave the value blank, the rendering intent specified in the template or the ICC profiles default rendering intent will be used.

Please note that some ICC profiles produce the same result regardless of the requested rendering intent.

Black Point Compensation: Black Point Compensation (BPC) is a technique used in digital photography printing. It ensures that the shadow detail in the image is preserved by simulating the full dynamic range of the output device - essentially making black more black. BPC can be used when transforming files using ICC profiles form CMYK to RGB.

As black is not always totally black in CMYK, it will be mapped to something not completely black in RGB, essentially making the RGB image more "grey". Using BPC is enabled by default.


With black point compensation	Without black point compensation

Format: Format describes the image file format. You may choose between these 4 formats:

jpeg - A good general purpose format supported by most applications. JPEG offers efficient compression by removing \"hard to see\" details from the image.
eps - Encapsulated PostScript files used for page layout by graphics arts professionals.
pdf - PDF files can be viewed on most systems using the Adobe Acrobat Reader and can also be used for page layout by graphics arts professionals.
tiff - A good general purpose format supported by most applications. Because TIFF supports lossless compression it is a good starting point if you need to work on the image in an image editing application like Adobe Photoshop.

Rotate: The Rotate function lets you rotate the image. Rotation is measured in degrees. Click in another input field or hit the tab key on your keyboard to update the preview after you have entered a new value. Here are some examples of rotation:

If you specify both, width and height, the selection will be locked to the aspect ratio given by the width and height value. Press SHIFT while resizing the selection to ignore the aspect ratio. Note: If your Browser does not support Flash the aspect ratio will not be locked.

DPI: Specifies the DPI (Dots per Inch) associated with the image. Changing this value does not affect the number of pixels in the image or the size of the file. It is merely used to describe the physical dimensions of the image when placed in a page layout application or similar.

Crop top,left: You can use the cropper handles in the image displayed to select minor parts of it. You can also set the numbers manually for a left crop, that is from the top left corner. The number specified is the x,y values (top value, left value). The range of the values goes from 0 to 1 so that:

Crop top,left: , actually means crop 10% from left and 10% from the top

Crop bottom,right: Similar to the crop mentioned above, but here you crop from the bottom right corner. The values 1,1 means that the bottom right corner goes to 100% button and 100% right of the image.

Filename prefix, postfix: A prefix is a text string added before the filename and a postfix is a text string added after the filename (but not the file extension). This feature is useful for discriminating between different variations of downloaded images.

Example: The postfix ”_300_DPI” will change the filename car.tiff to car_300_DPI.tiff. If you download several variations of the same image, but with different specifications, you can use this feature to distinguish between downloads of the same source image with different specifications.

When you are finished selecting advanced options, click on Start Download to add your selection to the Download Manager .

How to open ZIP files

In order to minimize the time it takes to transfer the image and to avoid that your browser tries to display the file instead of saving it, the image files are always compressed and delivered as ZIP files.

Some operating systems such as Mac OS X and Windows XP come with the software necessary to open and extract images from ZIP files. Users of other earlier of Microsoft Windows can use the WinZIP utility and Macintosh users can use StuffIt to open the files.

Download Original

Downloads the original image file to your computer. Please notice that eRez first packs the image into a zip file. When that process is finished eRez tells you: Your image is ready! and prompts you for a place on your computer to download the image to.

Open original

Opens the original image and streams it to your machine where it will be opened by an appropriate application if you have one that supports the format. Please notice that original images can be very large. Caution - A high quality original TIFF image may be many many megabytes.

Download Manager

Download Manager Download Manager collects all you have selected for download in a list. Every time you select an image for download the eRez Server starts processing and packing the image. This means that you can browse, collect, and play around with the images you want to download. When you decide that now is the time to download them – you just click on the Download Manager.

Download Manager

All your files are now ready. Click Download All to transfer them all to your computer or send the basket as an e-mail.

	Size : 35.94 KB (36806 bytes)	ready	Download	Remove
	Size : 96.96 KB (99287 bytes)	ready	Download	Remove
Total	Size : 132.9 KB (136093 bytes)	ready	Download All	Remove All

The Download Manager collects all the images you have selected for download here. Each time you select an image for download the eRez Server starts preparing the image in the background. You can go back and browse, collect, experiment and add more images to download.

When you decide to download them – just click on "Downloads" in the Navigator Bar.

The Download Manager tells you if all your images are ready for download. If one or more images aren't ready, you will see them in the download manager.

You can select to download – that is transfer to your computer – individual image, by pressing "Download". You can also "Remove" individual images from the Download Manager. Finally you can Download All or Remove All.

The individual and total sizes for images in the Download Manager are also listed.

Mail a link to the download basket

To:

mom@family.com

Subject:

Link to images for download

From:

me@mySystem.com

Message:

Hi Mom

Look what I have collected just for you.

Love your big baby

Send

What eRez does is not actually sending the images, rather eRez sends and email with a URL to the selection of files in the download manager.

Publish Image or Selection to Web

Publish Image "Samples/Test/1kia pack.tif" to Web

The publish to web function generates scripts you can paste into your html documents, which then calls the appropriate image or viewer(s) according to your selections.

There are four different ways of making a selection:

You can select an image – the same as viewing an individual image.
You are viewing a folder – which then is your selection.
You may have selected various files, now available from your “Selection” tab at the top Navigator bar.
You can perform a search and the search query can be your selection.

If your selection contains just one item, which is just one image pressing the "Publish Image to web" button will let you publish in three different ways:
1. Publish as HTML image
2. Publish as AJAX Image
3. Publish as FSI Viewer (Flash)

You can only publish as Flash viewer if the FSI flash viewer is enabled on the eRez Server when you logged in.

Publish Folder "Samples" to Web

If your selection contains more than one item, the "Publish selection to web" button lets you:
1. Publish as FSI Pages
2. Publish as FSI Showcase
3. Publish as FSI Viewer 3D
4. Publish as Slideshow

These are very powerful tools used by web designers to add dynamic image content to Web sites. With this tool it is very simple and fast to add customized images with real-time Zoom and Pan interactivity to any web-page.

On a Web site you don't embed images directly into the HTML files - instead you refer to them. When the HTML files are loaded by the Web browser, the browser will pull the image from its source and insert it into the document. The type of reference used with HTML is called a URL - Unified Resource Locator. The "Publish Image Selection to Web" function creates code you can insert into your HTML document.

Publish as HTML image

If you publish as HTML image, eRez will help you generate the HTML code necessary for inserting your selected image into your HTML page and the equivalent Image URL. You can make on-the-fly selection on what part of the image should be retrieved and how.

Traditionally a URL for an image points to a static image manually prepared in advance and placed on a Web server. By changing this URL to point directly to the eRez server, it is possible to have the eRez server create and endless number of variations of each image automatically and "on-the-fly". The eRez server is optimized to create images from URLs extremely fast - in so called "real-time". In order to serve "dynamic images" as fast as static images prepared in advance, the server utilizes a number sophisticated caching methods and visitors on the Web site will not be able to tell the difference.

Quite often the same image is used in various sizes on a Web site in the form of a small "thumbnail", a larger preview and maybe a version optimized for printing. Having the eRez server create all the different version on-the-fly eliminates the need for manually preparing them in advance. And if the source image is modified the modification will take effect on all the derived images immediately.

Since the eRez server can create images in real-time we can go even further and make the images on the Web interactive. It only takes one extra line of code in the HTML file to make it possible for the visitor to ZOOM into and inspect the details of an image. And the tools can create the URL automatically as well as the HTML code to turn the images into live interactive images.

The "Publish as HTML Viewer" features are very similar to the Advanced Download Options . But instead of making an image for you to download it constructs an URL you can insert into your html document.

Settings

Template:
Format:
JPEG Quality:
Sharpening:
Rotate:
Width, Height:	,
Crop top,left:	,
Crop bottom,right:	,
Fill color:	# Pick
Respond to clicks:
Eyecon:
Additional Parameters:

( Format : Parameter1=Value1&Parameter2=Value2... )
Default Values Update HTML Code Preview

Template: In the same way that eRez uses templates to describe the settings for different download formats it uses a separate set of templates when creating images in real-time from a URL. These templates can be modified and new templates can be added by the eRez Server Administrator.

By default the default sizes of the "Large", "Medium" and "Small" template are:

Large (max 600 pixels x 600 pixels)
Medium (max 400 pixels x 400 pixels)
Small (max 250 pixels x 250 pixels)

eRez always scales the image to fit inside the width and height without distorting the proportions. The Server Administrator may have defined templates with overlay effects. By using these templates eRez will place a semi-transparent image on top of the resulting image in order to create visual effects like frames and watermarks. Below you will see the two sample templates that are installed with the software:

Overlay:
The little girl in this image comes from an overlay TIFF-file. The power of the eRez imaging server is that it can merge the original image (the cropped version of the bird) with the overlay (the image of the girl and the frame). The overlay image contains transparent layers, shadows etc.

Watermark:

FlashFilm, FlashSlidshow, Slideshow and fsi are special templates for use by the Flash components and can not be used on a regular web page because the format is Flash.

Format:

jpeg standard JFIF formatted images.
png 256 (or full 24 bit) color indexed PNG images. This is better than GIF and has no patent issues, which the GIF standard does.
gif 256 color indexed GIF images. In most cases PNG cases PNG would be a better choise.
flash JPEG compressed Flash movies. Macromedia Flash player (see www.macromedia.com) can refer to/include images in a Flash application by calling their URL's. eRez will make a flash version of the image on the fly and send it to the clients flash player. This is a great way of making dynamic content within a flash application and for not storing tons of images within it.
pdf JPEG or ZIP compressed Adobe PDF files (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or similar). The PDF format was developed by Adobe (see www.adobe.com for more information)
tiff Tagged Image File Format. Included to make the list complete. Avoid using this format on Web pages.
eps Encapsulated Postscript images with 256 color TIFF preview. Included to make the list complete. Avoid using this format on Web pages.

JPEG Quality: The quality of JPEG compressed images. This must be in the range 0 (very poor quality/small image file) to 100 (highest quality/largest image file). For PDF images a value of "0" means no JPEG compression and ZIP compression will be used instead. For GIF and EPS this attribute is ignored. For PNG a value of “24” means that the file will be encoded as a full color (24 bit) image instead of 256 color (8-bit).

Sharpening: The amount of sharpening to apply to the image. This must be in the range -500 (heavy blur) to 500 (strong sharpening). A value of 0 applies no sharpening.

-500	-100	0	100	500

Width, Height: Specify the width and height of the image in pixels. You don't need to specify both. If for example you only specify width, eRez will adjust the height accordingly and constrain proportions. If you specify both, width and height, the selection will be locked to the aspect ratio given by the width and height value. Press SHIFT while resizing the selection to ignore the aspect ratio.

Note: If your Browser does not support Flash the aspect ratio will not be locked.

Crop top,left: , actually means crop 10% from left and 10% from the top

Fill color: The RGB background color used to pad the image in order to make the image exactly fit the specified width and height. Uses standard web color format (e.g. ff0000 is red, 00ff00 is green etc..). Click on Pick to activate the color picker.

Respond to clicks: If you want users to be able to zoom into the image you are publishing or using the Eyecon function, check this box. If you don't want to allow users any interactivity with the published image, make sure this option is left unchecked.

Eyecon: The eyecon thumbnail can be placed in the four different corners of the image, depending on the eyecon value:

Upper-left	Upper-right	Lower-Left	Lower-Right

If you use HTML code that includes support for "eyecon", a separate window with a "Viewer" will open in the browser when the user clicks on the "Eyecon".

Additional Parameters: A place where additional parameters to the eRez server can be added. This would typically be parameters and values to an SVG template file.

Use "Update HTML Code" to update the "Image URL" and "HTML Code" fields. You can preview your selections by using the "Preview" link. Use "Default Values" to reset the various selections. Finally you can copy and copy form the "Image URL" and "HTML Code" fields and paste their generated HTML code into your HTML document.

Code

As you select options on how your image should be presented in your HTML page you actually build HTML code. You can use the "Preview" link to check how your selection will look like. Use the "Update HTML code" to update the "Image URL" and "HTML code" boxes. When you are happy with your selection and have "Updated HTML code" copy the generated code and insert it into your HTML page.

Publish as AJAX Viewer

If you publish as AJAX Viewer you generate some html code that shows an interactive viewer (the AJAX Viewer ) that let’s you zoom into and pan around the image.

To publish an image with an AJAX Viewer gives you just a few options. You can set the width, height, JPEG quality and sharpening of the image displayed.

When you publish as an HTML image you publish a static image, when you publish as AJAX Viewer you publish the whole image with the available viewer actions.

Sharpening: The amount of sharpening to apply to the image. This must be in the range -500 (heavy blur) to 500 (strong sharpening). A value of 0 applies no sharpening.

Click on Update HTML Code to update the html code generated with your new specified values. User Default Values if you need to restore original values. Finally use Preview to open a new window with your AJAX viewer presenting the image according to your specifications.

To use the AJAX viewer on a web page you need to insert the generated code from HTML <head>: in the header and the HTML <body>: in the body of your page.

Publish as FSI Viewer (Flash)

If FSI Viewer is installed on your eRez server you can choose to publish your image for viewing with FSI Viewer. Please note that the version of FSI Viewer that ships with eRez server is an evaluation copy that needs to be licensed separately. Please contact your eRez dealer for more information.

Publish

General

Width x Height
Width and height of the viewer with an option on automatic scaling the height. In this example the FSI Viewer will have the width of 400 pixels and automatic scaling to the aspect ratio of the source image. You can deselect the automatic scaling by un-checking the “auto” option. However, eRez picks the right dimensioning of the FSI viewer when auto is checked. The height dimension is updated when you press "Update HTML code" or "Preview". By default the aspect ratio of the crop selection corresponds to the aspect ratio defined by the “Viewer Dimension” values.

Resizeable
Displays a resizable preview window if this option is checked.

Skin filename
Use the specified skin defining the appearance of FSI Viewer user interface.
FSI Skins are located in the subdirectory "/skins".
In addition to the default skins that ship with FSI Viewer customized skins are available on demand. Please note that using unregistered skins activates the evaluation mode.

Intro filename
FSI Viewer ships with a default start animation. Custom intros are available on demand.
Please note that using an unregistered intro activates the evaluation mode.

Sharpness The amount of sharpening to apply to the image. This value must be in the range -500 (heavy blur) to 500 (strong sharpening). A value of 0 applies no sharpening.

JPEG Quality: The quality of JPEG compressed images shown in the FSI Viewer. This must be in the range 0 (very poor quality/small image file) to 100 (highest quality/largest image file). It is not recommended to use values below 10% or above 90%.

Language:
Specifies the language of FSI Viewer user interface. Available language files are located in the directory [eRez root directory]/fsi4/languages/ . Please refer to FSI Viewer Documentation if you want to modify a language file or add a new language.

Sourcecode Options

Additional Parameters
You can use this text field to enter any number of FSI parameters manually.
Parameters have to be entered in the following way "Parameter1=Value1&Parameter2=Value2...".

Debug mode
Enable or disable FSI Viewer debug mode. Debug mode provides information on FSI Viewer configuration, plug-ins, software versions and licensing.

Window Mode
"WindowMode" lets you define wether the flash instance should be opaque or transparent.

Background hexcolor
Let’s you pick a background color for the parts of the FSI Viewer not covered by the image you view or the FSI menu / survey window.

ViewerBorder
Defines the color of the border.

Round Corners
Size of round edges. "Round Corners" defines the parameter RoundedSkinCorners for the ShoppingList Plugin/Add-on.

Flash Detection:
You can publish FSI Viewer including or without Flash detection. In case you choose publishing without Flash detection, users with an outdated version or without any Flash plug-in setup on their systems will not be prompted to download Adobe Flash plug-in.

Wrap in (X)HTML
Choose wether to generate the entire (X)HTML document or FSI Viewer code only. Check this option if you want to create a new document showing FSI Viewer. Uncheck this option if you want to add FSI Viewer to an existing document.

Target Document
"Target document" lets you select the Code Snippet format.

Load/Save Settings

The settings you have created regarding this instance of the FSI Viewer can be saved on the eRez Server - if your eRez administrator has set you up to alow you to do this!

When logged into eRez with your username and password you can access your previously loaded settings.

eRez/FSI also ships with some sample settings you can choose from

minimal. Loads a minimal userinterface, with buttons just for reset zoom, zoom in/out and selecting area to zoom
no_user_interface. Competely removes the user interface menu from the viewer. To see the userinterface again, users should click on the small icon Hide/Show userinterface in the top left corner of the viewer.
small_nav Has a smaller survey window.

Loading new settings will update the parameter values in the publish to web specification tabs.

If you are the administrator, you can also alter a settings by editing the corresponding XML configuration file located in the directory "[eRez root directory]/fsi/config/viewer_presets/".

Preview

In preview you can always see the application of your FSI viewer setting changes. The preview is updated on the fly.

> (Expland with more menu choices)

Clicking on the > tab let's you see what further options you have for customizations.

Viewer
Plug-Ins
Initialview
Crop
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Clicking on < will reduce the number of tabs again.

Viewer

Animation quality
Specifies the quality during animations (transitions). The lower the quality, the smoother the animations. Default value is BEST

Animation Speed:
Speed of animated motion from 1 (slowest) to 100 (max. speed).

Animation Type
Defines the type of the zoom animation. Possible values range from 1 to 6, and the default value is 3.

No zoom limit
Allows magnification beyond the actual resolution of the source image. If you zoom beyond the available resolution the viewer interpolates the presentation and the image may become less clear.

Maximum Zoom
The maximum magnification in percent of the source image. The default value of "100%" restricts the magnification to the physical resolution of the source image.

Possible values are "1" to "1000". The default value is 100.

Hide survey window

(See left) select whether to show or hide the small survey window within the FSI Viewer indicating which part of the image you are viewing and the percentage you have zoomed into the image.

Show selection frame

Specifies whether to show (true) or hide (false) the selection frame of the survey window. Default is show.

Use hand cursor
If you set this parameter to "Yes" the default arrow cursor will be used instead of the hand cursor when hovering over the image or the survey window. Has no effect with Flash versions prior to version 6.

Hexcolor of selection frame
Depending on the skin you will see a different selection frame color.

Opacity outside selection
Depending on the skin you will see a different type of opactity outside the selection, when you are performing a selection.

Mask hexcolor outside selection
Depending on the skin the color of the mask outside the selection frame will differ. The default value is the hexcolor for black "000000"

Survey window width / Survey window height
Specify the size of the survey window by entering the maximum width and height of the image inside the survey window.

Clipping Path: Let’s you select a clipping path contained in the image. Click the “Crop” button to crop the image to the bounding box of the clipping path. This option is available only for images containing clipping paths.

Background image URL
The path to an image on your imaging server to be used as a background. If you use a relative path (recommended) the FSIBase parameter will be used to get the absolute path to the image.

Hide user interface Hide FSI Viewer user interface (menu bar and survey window) on startup. The user can show the interface by clicking the small button in the corner of FSI Viewer.

Menu Alignment:
Alignment of the menu bar and the survey window. There are four different options – one for each corner of FSI Viewer.

No SceneSet animations
If this option is activated the transition between scenes and SceneSets is not animated. This can be usefull if the different scenes present different states of an object instead of a rotation. Default is "No"

No scene loop (X-axis)
The first and last scene in the each scene set will be considered ending points. (E.g. for partial rotations < 360 degree)

No set loop (Y-axis)
The first and the last scene set will be considered ending points. (E.g. for partial rotations < 360 degree)

Preload 3D Images: Applies to virtual 3D presentation only. FSI Viewer loads high detail preview images if enabled.

If this parameter is activated all scenes will be loaded on startup in high resolution. Otherwise preview images will be loaded with lower resolution. This parameter can significantly influence loading times and traffic volumes. Setting this parameter to false leads to faster startup times and scene images will be loaded as soon as they need to be displayed.

Scene sequence definition
With this parameter you can define the SceneSet for images with several scenes (TilesX, TilesY). This sets the order of the scenes to be displayed. A sceneset containing all scenes (image tiles) will be created if no sets are defined.

In the viewer the scenes are selected with the mouse in the x direction and the SceneSets in the y direction.

The individual sets are seperated with ";" (semicolon).

Scenes within the sets are seperated with "," (comma) and specify the 1-based index of the image from left to right, up to down up to the total number of scenes (TilesX x TilesY).

Instead of individual scenes you can also specify scene ranges, e.g. "5-10". If you leave out the start or the finish of a scene range, 1 or respectively the last scene number will be assumed. If you enter the field with "->" the field from the first number to the last number plus the first scene up to the second number will be assumed.

Size of image detail tiles (X-axis)
The value can be defined relative to the viewer size (e.g. "25%") or using absolute pixel values (e.g. "256").

The default value of 50% means that each image tile is one quarter in size of the entire viewer. This way a maximum of 9 image tiles is required to display the selected image section.

Size of image detail tiles (Y-axis)
The value can be defined relative to the viewer size (e.g. "25%") or using absolute pixel values (e.g. "256").

The default value of 50% means that each image tile is one quarter in size of the entire viewer. This way a maximum of 9 image tiles is required to display the selected image section.

No image transition
If this parameter is activated, subsequently loaded image details are displayed abruptly without transition.

Initial magnification
The initial magnification in FSI Viewer after the user selected an image to zoom. Specify the magnification in percent of the source image, e.g. "100" zooms to the physical resolution of the source image (default maximum magnification). With FSI Viewer 4.1 or above you can additionally use the parameter values "fitWidth" or "fitHeight" to make FSI Viewer zoom a page to fit the entire width or height of a page. If you do not specify this parameter FSI Viewer displays the entire image

Enable detail buffer
Enabling the detail buffer keeps previously loaded image details visible when zooming in or out instead of displaying the low resolution preview image while loading additional image details. This way zoom transitions appear smoother.

Simultaneous requests
Please do not change this value unless you are certain that this is necessary and you are aware of possible consequences:

Increasing this value might lead to increased imaging server load
Decreasing the value will decrease the download performance

The default value is 2

Custom help URL
If you want to create an individual help page for your FSI Viewer or FSI Showcase enter the complete (absolute) URL to this page using this parameters.

Custom help URL target
Using this parameter you can determine the target name of the browser window if a user opens the help page.

"_blank" is the default setting which causes the opening of a new browser window.

Ignore query parameters
f this parameter is activated, the viewer ignores all parameters passed via HTTP-query except for the "cfg" parameter. This way you can disable modification of FSI configuration by query.

3D Images prefix
Prefix to add to the <image src=""> values. You might want to use these parameters to pass a prefix or suffix by HTTP query rather than using the corresponding "prefix" and "suffix" attributes in the node.

3D Images suffix
Suffix to add to the <image src=""> values. You might want to use these parameters to pass a prefix or suffix by HTTP query rather than using the corresponding "prefix" and "suffix" attributes in the node.

Initial Action: Instructs FSI Viewer to execute the action specified on startup. This is especially useful for virtual 3D presentations.

The action is repeated until the user presses a button or key. During the action no image details are loaded.

Speed of Action: Defines the execution speed of "Initial Action" explained above where 1 is the fastest execution possible and greater values specify slower execution.Possible values range from 1 to 100. The default value is 3.

Repeat Action on Reset: Initial action restarts on each 'reset' command (button or keyboard) if set to true. The default value is "No".

Initial Mouse Mode: Choose the mouse mode selected on startup.The default value is 3.

Initial View
Sets the image segment that is initially displayed. The first two parameters are required as they specify the SceneSet and the Scene. For 2D image both of these values are always 1.

The other parameters are optional and specify the image segment and the rotation around the z-axis.

Return to Initial View
If this parameter is activated, clicking the "Reset" button will display the image section defined by the InitialView parameter instead of the entire image.

If this parameter is set to "No", the initial view will be active on startup, but pressing the Reset button will reset the image to the default view.

ZoomCache URL
If you use NeptuneLabs ZoomCache, please specify the URL of the ZoomCache server here. If you haven't installed this yourself, you can receive this URL and a ZoomCache ID from your image server partner or ZoomServer consultant.

Use ZoomCache for Flash 5 only
Use ZoomCache only for Flash-Plugins of Version 5.

When using watermarking, save functions or other functions of ZoomCache this parameter must have the value 0 or false to enable access to ZoomCache for all plugin versions.

ZoomCache ID
When using the NeptuneLabs ZoomCache enter the name of the access profile for your images here. You may have several profiles i.e. if you use watermarking or different Image Servers.

Plug-Ins (FSI Viewer)

Hover your mouse over any of the plug-in icons to see a short description. Click on the icon to turn it on, click again to turn it off.

Clockprogress. Display load progress in style of a clock.

ColorAdjust. Adds the Color Adjustment icon

to the FSI Viewer menu. Clicking on the icon gives the user the color adjust menu:

ContextMenu. Adds FSI Viewer related items to the FSI Viewers context menu.

CustomButton. Adds a custom button to the FSI Viewer Menu. Example of a custom button wich ships with FSI Viewer:

FullScreen. Enables the full screen option available in Flash 10. The menu button added looks like this:

History. Add browser like navigation buttons to the FSI Viewer Menu, which let's you go back and forth in your between the places you have zoomed into and panned in the FSI Viewer image. The menu button added looks like this:

Hotspots. Add (descriptive) hotspots to the FSI Viewer. Please notice that hotspots only purtains to the FSI Viewer - not FSI Pages. "Hotspots" in FSI Pages are specified with the link areas.

Please refer to the Plugin SelectFrame to see how you can obtain coordinates for defining hotspots.

Please refer to the FSI documentation for further information on using Hotspots.

JSBridge. The "JavaScript Bridge" plug-in provides a scripting interface to control FSI Viewer using JavaScript. Using the JavaScript bridge you can control viewer functions like "ZoomIn" and "Reset", you can remotely press/release Buttons inside the FSI Viewer and you can zoom to specified image sections directly. Additionally you can implement a JavaScript function receiving FSI event notifications.

Though the integration of the plug-in is very easy, basic knowledge of JavaScript is required to use JSBridge plug-in - especially regarding browser dependent JavaScript implementations.

With FSI Viewer and eRez server it is very likely that you use FSI Viewer from "erez.yourdomain.tld" while your HTML document resides in the subdomain "www.yourdomain.tld". Therefore JSBridge plug-in allows script access from the subdomain "www.yourdomain.tld" and from the main domain "yourdomain.tld" by default.

In case you need to access JSBridge from other (sub)domains you can specify a list of subdomains separated by "," using this parameter, e.g.: www.domain.com,www.domain2.com

Magnifier. Adds a magnifier to your FSI Viewer The menu button added looks like this:

MaxZoom. Add a button to zoom to the real image size. The menu button added looks like this:

Measure. Add a tool to measure certain parts of the image with a "ruler".The menu button added looks like this:

If you know the width of a part of the image, but you do not know the width of the entire image, you should follow the steps below:

Add the measure plug-in without any parameters.
Open the image inside the FSI Viewer and choose the Measure mouse mode.
Measure the part of the image you know the real width of. (The Measure plug-in will display a decimal number n between 0 and 1)
The value w for the ImageWidth parameter is: w = RealWidth / n.

If the Measure plug-in displays for example n=0.91388889. The real length L of the map mesure is 800 kilometers.

ImageWidth w = L / n
= 800 / 0.91388889 = 234.7112459

MouseModes. You can alter the sequence of the buttons by providing the modes separated by commas (see the table above). Example: "1,0,2,3" alters the sequence of the buttons to "Pan, Zoom, Rotate 3D, Rotate 2D."

Default Value is 0,1,3,2

Mode0 Zoom In
Mode1 Pan
Mode2 3D Rotate
Mode3 Turn

MouseModeSelect. Integrates a dropdown menu into the menu bar to select the mouse mode.

Music. Play background music.The menu button added looks like this:

To play music in your FSI Viewer you must specifyan absolute or relative path to an MPEG3 file (*.mp3). If you specify a relative path (instead of "http://..." or "https://...") the path needs to be provided relative to the "music" subdirectory of the "/fsi" folder.

NavExtension. Adds navigation helper menu.The menu button added looks like this:

PrintSave. Add option to print and/or save images. The menu button added for print looks like this:

And the menu button for save:

Resize. Dynamically resize the FSI Viewer. This means that you can publish the FSI Viewer in a window and let the users themselves enlarge or reduce the size of the window. The FSI Viewer will then on-the-fly request images in the right size from the eRez server.

SelectFrame. Get image coordinates, by adding a resizable select frame into FSI Viewer.The menu button added looks like this:

SelectFrame is usefull in authoring e.g. Hotspots. You can use the value displayed in the "Selection" window for the "Spot" parameter of the hotspot. You can use the value displayed in the "View" window for the optional "View" parameter.

Pressing SHIFT locks the aspect ratio of the selection.
Pressing CTRL resizes the selection relative to the center
Pressing ALT rotates the selection
Pressing ALT + SHIFT rotates the selection in steps of 5 degrees

SoftwareCursor. The "Software Cursor" plug-in adds a software cursor representing the current mouse mode (Zoom, Drag, Rotate-2D, Rotate 3D).

Additional software cursors can be added. They will then be run from an SWF (compiled Flash movie) file containing custom cursor graphics. Please refer to the FSI Contrib package for a sample and instructions how to create your own cursor library.

Synchronize. Syncronizes two FSI Viewer instances. This means that you can have to copies of the FSI Viewer running on the same web-page. The FSI Viewers can be syncronized so that when you zoom into one you also zoom into the other.

Further you can syncronize two instances of the FSI Viewer that uses the Measure Plugin and the SoftwareCursor Plugin.

ZoomMeter. The "ZoomMeter" plug-in extends the survey window with a display of the current magnification.

Initial view

Is the image section (and rotation) to display on startup.

Crop top,left: You can use the crop handles in the image displayed to select minor parts of it. You can also set the numbers manually for a left crop, that is from the top left corner. The number specified is the x,y values (top value, left value). The range of the values goes from 0 to 1 so that:

actually means crop 10% from left and 10% from the top

SceneSet, Scene, Rotation: The first two values define the current SceneSet and Scene for virtual 3D presentations. The rotation value specifies the 2D rotation (tilt) of the image in FSI Viewer on startup in 0..360 degrees.

Click on Select entire image to redo you selection.

Crop

Crop Crop the image to match the viewer size independent of the aspect ratio of the image. In contrast to cropping the image using the crop values this option does not only modify the initial image section to view.

Use the SHIFT and Ctrl keys to switch resize mode.

Publish as FSI Pages

FSI Pages Add-on for FSI Viewer offers the possibility to publish high resolution image collections on-line. With FSI Pages you can create virtual booklets like catalogs or photo albums including automatically built indices and image zoom via FSI Viewer. As FSI Pages loads image and page data on demand you can publish virtual catalogs containing 1,000 pages or even more without increasing the startup time considerably.

The images displayed in FSI Pages can either be specified manually or automatically based on a selection . The selection can be dynamic and each image represents an individual page of the catalog or photo album. If your selection is a folder, whenever the folder content changes the content in the FSI Pages changes as well. If your selection is a search query, whenever images are added or deleted on the eRez server that includes or excludes it from the query in the selection, the content in the FSI Pages changes accordingly.

Please refer to FSI Viewer documentation for a detailed description of FSI Pages options and parameters.

Please note that the version of FSI Pages Add-on that ships with eRez server is an evaluation copy that needs to be licensed separately.
Please contact your eRez dealer for more information.