Viewing Scanned images

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Chasan" <joe at magnatechonline.com>
To: "ivan chason" <deweyweekender at yahoo.com>
Cc: "filePro" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: Viewing Scanned images


> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:48:37AM -0700, ivan chason wrote:
>>
>>
>> --- Walter Vaughan <wvaughan at steelerubber.com> wrote:
>>
>> > ivan chason wrote:
>> > > Is there a viewing app that I could run on unix to
>> > let
>> > > other viewers see the scanned images though?
>> >
>> > You're still missing the problem. The files are what
>> > they are. You can covert
>> > them from .tiff to .jpg's to .swf's, but they still
>> > are bits of data on a
>> > server. Your unix box is the server. Your clients
>> > are the Windows, MacOSX, or
>> > Linux machines that a person sits at. The clients
>> > "pull" the information into
>> > them and use an application like irfanview and
>> > convert those bits of data into a
>> > image that is displayed on a screen or paper.
>> > Nothing on the server has to do
>> > with the viewing, how it get viewed all happens on
>> > the client device.
>> >
>> > Well that's not entirely true... if you change the
>> > metaphor of how you
>> > communicate with the server to be web based, then
>> > the server does have a huge
>> > "say" in how those images get in front of the
>> > client.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Walter
>>
>> So we're back to the simplest solution being to just
>> setup a VPN.
>
> a VPN would probably get you the same functionality outside as you
> have in-house.  if you  know how to set it up, its the quickest way
> to get this done.
>
>> Now where would using the BLOB command fit into all of
>> this.
>
> BLOB has nothing to do with the display of your image, it is just
> how/where it is stored internally in filePro - the command lets
> you bring it in/out, add/delete - not view/manipulate data for anything
> other than text files.
>
>> I'm still hoping to some how stream line the
>> way that images are viewed.  Now we use a system
>> command and I would like to contain everything within
>> FilePro's functionality.  I just really don't have an
>> understanding of how the BLOB function works.
>
> filePro has no built-in viewer for anything non-text.
> if you want to view .jpg or .bmp files, this can be done externally
> via a system call as you do now, or within filePro GI (an add-on
> product from FP that has its own viewer) - that is if you wanted do to
> a re-write and do all from within filePro.  I think you would still
> need a way to see the file from the outside to do it with filePro GI
> even, so VPN or other some such setup still comes in to play - all
> you'd replace (for this issue) by adding in filePro GI is the need/use of
> irfanview (which, while certainly is by far better than what comes with
> windows, may not be necessary either as native windows apps can also open
> most of what irfanview can).

We just use the web server on the server and the web browser on the client.
No vpn, no special viewers needed on the client.
The act of popping up the viewer does shift focus to the web browser that 
pops up.
Another approach is I think AnzioWin has a controllable image viewer built 
in.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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