I am just making a guess here, but on average would the Xaml from the XPS
files be alot less cost in bandwidth then using the images for Deep Zoom...?



On 5/31/08, Stephen Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was interested in the possibility of using Deep Zoom for document
> display. Jose showed a brief "what if" of the ANZ web site with a Deep Zoom
> version of some documents. My question about that is, did he build the
> document controls around the outside of the viewer or is that part of
> something the Deep Zoom tool creates for you? It's on my list of things to
> look at.
> I'm currently working on a Silverlight 2 app that displays content sourced
> from PowerPoint slides. I've got a converter that pulls the XAML out of an
> XPS document (printed from PowerPoint).
> I'm wondering if it might be a better alternative to export the PowerPoint
> stuff into images and use Deep Zoom?
>
> I guess the danger here is to try to use this exciting new stuff for
> everything. Not that banging square pegs into round holes isn't fun, don't
> get me wrong... ;)
>
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:40 AM, John OBrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Indeed we are Chuck, I didn't know this list existed, hello everyone.
>> We are doing a few things, one is with the cultural sector looking at
>> something similar to the hard rock memorabilia site but with more items,
>> one
>> project is looking at 18,000 high resolution art works. We have all the
>> pieces although the whole automated command line processing is very
>> undocumented and we face issues about the top limit of items we can
>> display
>> at one time. We have no way to uniquely identify an item within the
>> collection apart from the zindex which is a bit hacky. And of course the
>> bandwidth could kill us ;)
>>
>> Personally I've been playing with deep zoom for 50+ megapixel panorama
>> photos, little article for anyone that is interested:
>>
>> http://www.liveside.net/blogs/developer/archive/2008/05/11/create-a-deep-zoo
>> m-panorama-with-windows-live.aspx<http://www.liveside.net/blogs/developer/archive/2008/05/11/create-a-deep-zoom-panorama-with-windows-live.aspx>
>> And you can check out a few shots from Bronwen's 350d (I hear you got the
>> 400d Scott?):
>> http://bronwenz.smugmug.com/gallery/4980796_NRXFM
>>
>> I'm also looking at a community project around Virtual Earth and
>> Silverlight2 where ideally we would use the multiscaleimage control (deep
>> zoom) but change the tile source - not even sure if this is possible.
>>
>> I actually had a good chat with Jose at remix in Melbourne, he has some
>> great ideas.
>>
>> Keen to know what others are up to. Deep Zoom is awesome.
>>
>> John - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Charles Sterling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Saturday, 31 May 2008 3:00 AM
>> To: [email protected]; John O'Brien
>> Subject: RE: Jose's DeepZoom demo from REMIX08
>>
>>
>> Pretty certain John is playing with it - as he is presenting on it at the
>> Next Bar Camp in Brisbane.
>> Chuck
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Behalf Of Scott Barnes
>> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:52 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [OzSilverlight] RE: Jose's DeepZoom demo from REMIX08
>>
>> If anyone on the list is also doing anything with Deep Zoom, the Product
>> Team would love to hear from you. Please Little-r me if you're keen to
>> share...
>>
>> Jose, as always, you rock!...
>>
>> ---
>> Scott Barnes
>> Product Manager
>> Microsoft.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Behalf Of Ola Karlsson
>> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:41 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [OzSilverlight] RE: Jose's DeepZoom demo from REMIX08
>>
>> uuh, spooky, I actually just watched that on dg.tv like 15 min ago and
>> next
>> thing I noticed your post on the list ;)
>>
>> Good stuff thanks for putting it togheter, really nice for us who couldn't
>> make it to Remix.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ola
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of Michael Kordahi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, 30 May 2008 4:15 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [OzSilverlight] Jose's DeepZoom demo from REMIX08
>>
>> I sat down with Jose Fajardo yesterday and we captured his DeepZoom bits
>> from REMIX.
>>
>> If  you missed it at REMIX or even if you just want to relive the magic,
>> this is a must see.
>>
>> -mk
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