I have a great reluctance to store and send office documents via the web. To return tiffs and docs, I typically throw them into pdfs for display.
(The docs get converted when uploaded, so they are stored on disk as PDF) The tiffs get thrown into a pdf on-the-fly (used to use ghostscript to do the build, but now cfdocument handles it no problem). Excel could probably be handled like docs (assuming you want to display data, and not have them interect with a spreadsheet) Drawing things over the top of other things in cfdocument is pretty easy, from the simple stamping tests I have tried. Just a thought. Jerry > On 6/13/06, Peterson, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have a document imaging system in place here that we use for driver > > documentation (applications, MVR's, etc), our billing system of invoices > > and proof of deliveries, AP, etc. I currently store all images as > > Tiff's and use the free Alternatiff (www.alternatiff.com) to view all > > images. This works in IE and FF and does exactly what I want it to do > > (I can pass parameters to disable their toolbar and make my own button > > sets, looks really good), BUT it only handles Tiff images. I have had a > > few requests now for different document formats, perhaps even Word and > > Excel, PDF, JPG, etc. Can anyone recommend a free of open source > > browser based plug-in or viewer (maybe even flash) that can view many > > different doc types over the web? > > > > Some of the advanced features I would love are the ability to annotate > > over the image as a layer, store changes or annotations in SQL, perhaps > > highlight or block out text in an image, etc. > > > > I was looking at the DjVu project > > (http://javadjvu.foxtrottechnologies.com/) . This looks very cool, but > > I don't want to have to convert our .NET scanning app to use the DjVu > > file format, and I don't want to convert my 40+ gigs of tiff images > > either. > > > > I have also thought about server side image conversion, but I have not > > yet found this to be fast enough even on our beefy server. Tried using > > Image.cfc from Alagad.com, which works for smaller scale, but I have too > > many users to make it viable for daily image viewing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243323 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
