Can Zoomify work with image tiles that are in other formats?
Zoomify currently works with JPEG tiles, however, Zoomify technology certainly can be modified to work with tiles in any image format that the Flash Player supports. With respect to viewing, such a modification would simply require a change to expected filename extension in the Zoomify Viewer Component inside the Zoomify Viewers (note that other changes might also be required, though this is not expected). With respect to image conversion, however, the Zoomify Converter would need to be modified to save tiles in a format other than JPEG. This would require greater effort. An alternative would be to create a script in Photoshop that would output tiles in the desired format, or to use a scripting language such as ASP, JSP, or Python coupled with an image library such as ImageMagick or PIL to create the tiles. The work involved in either of these approaches, while not overwhelming, is not trivial.
