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I-Zoom – Web Zoomable files from your Production Workflow
Wednesday 02. September 2009 - Lucid Dream Software, Inc., a leading provider to the printing industry announces I-Zoom for creating high resolution web zoomable proofs from your ripped-trapped production workflow. If youve used any zooming interface - like Google Maps - then you know how convenient and intuitive it is for navigating from the "Big Picture" to the "Finest Detail"!
I-Zoom can be configured into a production workflow to automatically export these super high quality images along with a configurable web page. Your clients can view their jobs in beautiful quality color with smooth zoom in/out and panning using the mouse wheel and mouse drag. Regardless of the speed of your internet connection, your clients will experience amazingly fast viewing and zooming with silky smooth transition from one level to the next.
Zoomable layouts are extremely popular ways of publishing content on the web – and they can even be viewed on many mobile phones! I-Zoom makes it easy for your customers to view their jobs in any level of detail – and zoomable layouts are a new offering that you can provide your customers to enable them to publish their content on their website easily and in high quality. I-Zoom uses Silverlight or Ajax to deliver a smooth zooming experience regardless of browser or operating system.
Publishing PDF files online are becoming less popular as viewer applications are slower and more difficult to work with. Online zoomable images are much faster and easier to work with and productivity of working with zoomable images is much higher than waiting for PDF files to load.
“We have released I-Zoom as a plugin to our popular I-Trap software – in addition we will be previewing I-Zoom as a new output format in our TIFF Pager software during the Print09 show”, says David Lewis, President of Lucid Dream. “I-Trap or TIFF Pager with I-Zoom will allow users to either directly export from their Rip or to convert final 1 bit TIFF files into the Web Zoomable format! I-Zoom files are supported in our OnTimeProof for automated job submission with job ticketing and now high resolution soft proofing at a very affordable price.”
Lucid will be showing I-Zoom in the Compose Systems booth number 6555 at Print09.