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Can I use Zoomify with vector graphics like vector map images?

April 26, 2017graphics images map vector Zoomify

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Can I use Zoomify with vector graphics like vector map images?

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Yes and no. Vector content in the form of a SWF file can easily be used as a hotspot (label, overlay) within the Zoomify Hotspot Viewer in 8 for our prior Zoomify Flash product version (v3). Later Zoomify Hotspot Viewer versions do not yet support hotspots in the file format ‘.swf’ due to complications related to Flash Player security changes. More importantly, vector content cannot currently be converted using the Zoomify Converter into a base image to be displayed within the Zoomify Viewer. The benefit of the Zoomify technology is in the rapid, interactive viewing of bitmap (photo) files. This is essential as bitmap images of any reasonable quality typically make for very large files. Cutting these files into JPEG tiles and doing so at many different tiers of resolution enables the Zoomify Viewer to download only the small portion of the image that is essential for the current view that has been zoomed and panned to by the user. This ensures that each new view will require only a dow