Jerry, I know that I can draw text over a document during upload (date time stamp, etc), but how do I allow the user to open the document, then save a note overtop of it, or allow them to draw an arrow to a portion of the document and add a 'sticky' to it, after it has been saved?
Chris -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:27 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Document imaging system in CF, need good viewer? 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:4:243324 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
