>>> On Monday, November 12, 2001,I wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone have a Mac/Win external that I could use to manipulate
>>>> graphics
>>>> images - rotate, scale, crop - to supplement or replace MetaCard 2.4
>>>> built-in functions? MetaCard's implementation introduces very noticeable
>>>> distortions, especially with images that have alpha channels.
>>>> Unfortunately, my application encourages users
>>>> to crop, scale, rotate, and flip the images they import.
>>
and Kevin James suggested:
>
> Have you considered using java applets? They are prone to all the
> problems of java ... slow, differing behaviors with platform-specific
> interpreters, etc. ... but could be a temporary fix ("need is
> immediate") to buy you some time. They are also cross-platform by
> default, platform-specific issues notwithstanding.
>
> My specific need is to use MC as a front end for a medical image
> archive of xrays, ct and mri data, etc. Functions such as leveling,
> rotating, cropping etc. are essential for viewing these sorts of
> images.
>
> In lieu of externals, my current approach is to use MC as front end
> for both uploading and viewing images ... data such as patient name,
> etc. are written to a webserved database and the image is ftp'ed to
> the appropriate location. To view the images, I have MC launch a
> browser with a URL that finds images based on the user's search
> criteria, such as name, medical record #, etc. This results page is
> formatted in such a way that each image is represented by several
> hyperlinks corresponding to multiple ways to view the image. You can
> view the image "as is" as a regular jpeg in your browser, use a
> simple java applet which basically allows you to zoom in and out, or
> use the feature-rich ImageJ, a public domain project of the National
> Institutes of Health which bills itself as "the world's fastest pure
> Java image processing program."
>
> Check it out:
>
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/applet2/
>
[snip]
Wow! amazing stuff.
I can't imitate your approach in my application (where my users are
creating, combining, printing, and saving documents (stacks) containing
images and text and more) but I lust for the features I saw in my quick
exploration of ImageJ!
Thanks for the link
tereza
+ Tereza Snyder
+ Senior Software Developer
+ Attainment Company, Inc.
+ <www.attainmentcompany.com>
+ 800.327.4269
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