Re: image viewer for gigapixels
Try Sequential
http://www.sequentialx.com
Its designed to view a collection of images - assumes you want to view a
collection of images in a folder.
I don't know if it will support gigapixel images - but its opensource - no
cost to try it :)
Gord
On Saturday 16 August 2008 2:58:12 pm Ryuji Suzuki wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry, this has nothing to do with traditional photography,
> but rather handling of high quality scanned images.
>
> I have dozens of images in the range of 0.5 to 2 gigapixels
> range. All I want to do is to view the images, and switch
> between 1:1, 1:2, 1:4, ..., 1:32 magnification, and navigate
> within the image. I am perfectly fine with pre-making all
> preview sizes.
>
> Preview in Leopard works very poorly, and most other programs
> do not work at all... Photoshop works poorly, but that's an
> overkill for the purpose. Lightroom 2 hangs up with the small
> catalog containing a dozen gigapixel images.
>
> Is there a good tool fur such purpose?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryuji
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