Image zooming solutions?

Question

Hi folks,

Got waist deep in a project that will involve presenting zoomable hi res catalog images. Was assuming I would use Zoomify (Can be seen at their dot com which I am not linking to) and bought a license.

Found out too late that their product relies on user preparing every image into a large number of tiles using their windows exe.

This app will be running under Linux on a virtual machine where I have vm root and I need to automate anything beyond the staff selecting a nice large picture.

Any favorite apps for this? Advice?

// Edit: currently reviewing ajax solutions for this problem. http://www.downloadjavascripts.com/Zoom%20And%20Magnifiers.aspx

TIA

JG

Answer 1

Zoomify Entreprise seems to offer tools to automate the work using a server-side language.

– Converter scripting examples - including scripts written in ASP, Cold Fusion, and PHP

Answer 2

Turns out (of course) that several kind souls have had their shoulder to this wheel already and have an open source solution:

http://greengaloshes.cc/2007/05/zoomifyimage-ported-to-php/