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A comment on the praise "Vector Graphics in Seadragon & Zoomism.com" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Nice piece, by the way, zrenneh! – igilman, on November 16, 2009 22:29

A comment on the question "How to Increase DPI of Deep Zoom Tools Output Images?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Seadragon allows you to zoom in past full resolution, so it will definitely get blurry if you zoom all the way, even if there's no resolution loss.

That said, sounds like the DPI is having a negative impact. Can you convert your image to 96 DPI (don't resample, just change the DPI tag... you can do this with Image Size in Photoshop, for instance) and see if that makes a difference?

Perhaps you could share with us a side-by-side comparison of zoomed in sections of your original and the Seadragon version so we can get a better sense of the effects? – igilman, on October 15, 2009 20:45

igilman replied on October 13, 2009 20:44 to the question "Deleting images uploaded on seadragon.com" in Microsoft Live Labs:

email me at igilman@microsoft.com

igilman replied on October 13, 2009 20:21 to the question "Deleting images uploaded on seadragon.com" in Microsoft Live Labs:

We don't have an image removal feature, but if you never share the link with anyone, it's unlikely anyone will ever see it. If an image should be removed for legal reasons, please contact us about the specific case.

A comment on the question "How to Increase DPI of Deep Zoom Tools Output Images?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

True, my printer comment was a bit of an oversimplification. Some applications pay attention to DPI and some don't. At any rate, DPI is meaningless in a Seadragon image... you get the pixels you've zoomed to. – igilman, on October 13, 2009 20:10

igilman marked one of Dan Cory's replies in Microsoft Live Labs as useful. Dan Cory replied to the question "How to Increase DPI of Deep Zoom Tools Output Images?".

igilman replied on October 08, 2009 17:55 to the question "How to Increase DPI of Deep Zoom Tools Output Images?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

An image's DPI is only used when printing, which presumably you won't be doing with the individual tiles of a DZI. You haven't lost any pixels; your image still has the same resolution, it's just missing the DPI marker.

Does that answer your question, or do you need the DPI marker for something I haven't thought of?

igilman replied on October 01, 2009 21:22 to the question "Prevent Deep Zoom images from being downloaded???" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Seadragon Ajax breaks your high resolution image into a series of tiles. You can right-click and save one of those tiles, but that's only a small portion of the image. Someone could theoretically go through the whole image, download the tiles one by one, and stitch them back together, but it would be a lot of work.

So, we don't make it impossible, but we don't make it easy either.

igilman replied on September 24, 2009 18:27 to the question "How on earth can I search any of the picture libraries?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

You're right, that would be a great feature. Seadragon Mobile was intended as a technology preview, so it doesn't have all of the things you would hope for from a serious utility.

igilman replied on September 09, 2009 18:48 to the question "Unminified Version of Seadragon AJAX JavaScript library?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Paul, we haven't yet published an un-minified version of the library, but we intend to once we've got an official license (which is taking longer than anticipated). For more on the license, see:

http://getsatisfaction.com/livelabs/t...

A comment on the update "Introducing Seadragon.com!" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Embaressingly enough, we're still working on the official license, but yes you can use it for commercial products and we don't expect to charge for it. Here's the main thread for this topic:

http://getsatisfaction.com/livelabs/t... – igilman, on August 19, 2009 18:25

igilman replied on August 17, 2009 21:17 to the problem "Seadragon conversion error for large file" in Microsoft Live Labs:

I'm sorry I can't give specific guidelines for what will work and what won't. The largest image we've seen is this 650 megapixel shot, which started out as a 1.3 gb tiff:

http://seadragon.com/view/1bu

...so surely your images should work. They don't (yet), and they are failing with out of memory, but we haven't gotten to the bottom of the problem yet.

igilman replied on August 10, 2009 20:29 to the problem "Seadragon conversion error for large file" in Microsoft Live Labs:

We definitely want to support huge images... as you say, that's the whole point! Our tools do work at such sizes (and beyond), but we're still sorting out the configuration on the server, and of course there are always exceptions. Keep them coming and we'll fix them as we can.

A comment on the praise "Vector Graphics in Seadragon & Zoomism.com" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Daniel, slick stuff! – igilman, on August 04, 2009 20:22

A comment on the praise "Vector Graphics in Seadragon & Zoomism.com" in Microsoft Live Labs:

trublin, looks great now! – igilman, on August 04, 2009 20:18

A comment on the praise "Vector Graphics in Seadragon & Zoomism.com" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Pretty slick! Are the vectors supported directly in OpenZoom?

The scroll wheel isn't working on the Mac in Safari 4, by the way. – igilman, on July 23, 2009 22:09

igilman replied on July 09, 2009 23:56 to the problem "Minor typo in Viewer API docs" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Thanks! We'll fix it.

A comment on the question "Seadragon Ajax License?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

I guess I should stop saying "real soon now" because it's obviously been months. We haven't forgotten, however... it's just going really slow back and forth with our legal department.

The license we're settling on should be fine for use on an intranet (as long as you host the files yourself), but I can understand if you'd like to wait until it's official. – igilman, on May 14, 2009 21:34

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