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Does anyone have experience with an image zooming engine in conjunction with image annotation? I don't want end users to annotate things themselves, but allow them to click on annotations added by an archivist. Thanks, Ethan On Nov 8, 2013 4:39 PM, "Edward Summers" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I’m having trouble understanding who the user of this content you are > putting into Omeka is, and what you are expecting them to do with it. But, > ok … > > //Ed > > On Nov 8, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >> It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the Web seems > like > >> the answer. Isn’t there a tiling viewer (like Leaflet) that could be > used > >> to render jpeg derivatives of the original tif files in Omeka? > >> > >> > > This should be pretty easy. But the issue with tiling is that the nav > > process is miserable for all but the shortest books. Most of the people > who > > want to download want are looking for jpegs rather than source tiffs and > > one pdf instead of a bunch of tiffs (which is good since each one is > > typically over 100MB). Of course there are people who want the real deal, > > but that's actually a much less common use case. > > > > As Karen observes, downloading and viewing serve different use cases so > of > > course we will provide both. IIP Image Server looks intriguing. But most > of > > our users who want the full res stuff really just want to download the > > source tiffs which will be made available. > > > > kyle >