Best solution for imaging?

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Both Notes itself and Windows XP come with in-built image viewers. But the Notes one opens in a new tabbed window within Notes, and the other opens in it’s own application window.

My dilemna is that my client wishes to attach images (multipage TIFFs in this case), and he also doesn’t want to be tied to a particular application as he would be if OLE embedded objects were used. Embedding makes use of the host application to package it up as an object of the application’s type, and Notes simply embeds the result. If you want to switch viewer applications though, you’re out of luck.

What he wants is the ability to have the attachments opened from within Notes and be displayed with an an imaging application with preferably the “in-place” functionality of OLE. Some sort of API to customize the load (ie., default magnification, default zone to go to, etc) would also be highly desirable.

Does anyone know of the best means/product for achieving these aims in Notes?

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Subject: Best solution for imaging?

The Viewer in Notes is simply a viewer.

Right-click the attached file (virtually every file type is supported) and choose view.

This is not an OLE-enabled object, simply a file viewer with the options that you discussed. Zoom, Rotate, etc.

If you want to use the default image viewer configured on the users system, choose “Open”, instead of view from the attachment short-cut menu.

I would avoid OLE in this case like the plague. OLE will require that specific application to be available to each user.

Then it’s just a matter of attaching the images into Notes documents in a database, and away you go…