OK, Let's say I am willing to support .pdf files. Anyone have ideas about how to go about this: -- OLE adobe's reader? -- Determine what Todd's mystery library is (gtk+?) -- send all media to an imbedded internet explorer (and let it handle the various file types, including .pdf)?
Kevin On 10/11/05, David Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also iMedConsent(tm) (which deals with documents as our output, input, > and everything in-between) supports TIFF and PDF primarily. Although we > allow you to output something like JPEG but we don't recommend it. > > If you have an imaging solution that holds on to TIFFs, you are > guaranteeing the state of the TIFF within your system. Once the file > leaves your system (to be sent down to the client for printing or what > not), you can't protect the file from alterations. PDFs support locking > and signing. We digitally sign our PDFs with the author's digital > signature. > > At one hospital they're signing the entire PDF with a single cert > stamped as "THE HOSPITAL" to certify it was accepted at the server > level. But it's very possible to sign it several times, one for each > wet signature in addition to layers within the system (by client, by > server, by imaging storage system, etc). Each one verifying the state > of the document and ensuring that it wasn't tampered with. > > This is addition to any hashing and security in place at the storage > system level. > > > David Sommers, Architect | Dialog Medical > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd > Berman > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:50 PM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp > > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 21:29 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > > Todd, > > > > Tell me about why .pdf is important. > > > > Because PDF is the natural choice for text documents, just as TIFF was > 10 years ago. > > > I could attach any file I want to a note. The issue will be the > > generation of thumbnails, and also the display of the .pdf documents. > > > > Yup, that is the issue. Currently for our solution, I believe we will be > generating a thumbnail image of the first page for the thumbnail, and > then showing the entire pdf when it is opened. > > > Are you going to host the .pdf viewer in your application? It seems > > that would also make deployment more difficult. > > > > Somewhat kinda, we are in a unique situation, but we have a library that > we are planning on using and distributing to allow pdf viewing. But no, > we wont be using adobe's stuff, and it shouldn't add any real issues for > deployment for us. > > > Why would this be better to do than just having a graphic image of the > document? > > > > Because there are good odds that PDF attachments are going to be very > common. Right now, e-fax (which gives faxes as PDFs) and pdf scanners > are very common, and will become more so. We will still support > multipage TIFFs for compatibilities sake, but I would assume we will be > recommending PDF over multipage TIFFs. > > --Todd > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, > discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
