Inzomia Viewer 3.x documentation

The Inzomia Image Viewer is a powerful image viewer that is really easy to use. The general idea behind the program is to always maximize the space for the image on screen and to always make it easy to zoom in on a specific detail in you picture.

When you start the Inzomia image viewer for the first time you will be presented with four windows in the browser layout. Viewing images is best done in the image layout that you select by double clicking the title bar of the image window.

Select "View folder in Inzomia Viewer 3" to view the selected image and browse the images in the folder

Select "View image in Inzomia Viewer 3" to view an image and start making a playlist with it or add it to the current playlist.

To open an image into the Inzomia image viewer:

Inzomia viewer is optimized to be able to display really large digital photos quickly.

When you load images from the playlist the next image will be preloaded transparently in the background. Because of this the next image is displayed instantly when you decide to load it.

When viewing an image you can easily zoom in on a detail. Move the cursor to the part of the image you are interested in. While holding the right mouse button pressed move the mouse forward to zoom in. To move away out from the pixel move the mouse button toward you while still holding the right mouse button pressed. The image can be moved if you hold down the left mouse button while moving the mouse.

When an image is zoomed it is automatically filtered to improve image quality. The left side shows the image unfiltered and the right shows the same image with filter.

Using playlists is a great tool to order your image collection. When viewing an image from a playlist you can doubleclick with the left/right mouse button anywhere on the image to load the next/previous image in the playlist.

Fullscreen mode allows you to view your image without annoying buttons or windows making maximum use of your screen area. To view your image in fullscreen mode move the cursor to the top of the image window, a toolbar with buttons will appear. A button will appear on top of the image in the upper right corner. Click the button to go to fullscreen mode. To return to the windowed mode simply repeat the process or hit the Esc key.

QuickView mode can be selected by the shortcut combination "Ctrl + 1". In quickmode the image window is maximized over all other windows regardless of layout. The same key combination restores the viewer from QuickView mode.

The file menu contains functions for loading images into the program.

The view menu contains functions that are executed in the image window.

The playlist menu contains functions that are executed in the playlist window.

The slideshow menu contains functions for using the playlist for slideshows.

The web menu contains functions that are executed in the web browser window.

The folder menu contains functions that are executed in the shell window, ie the window that shows folders.

The help menu contains functions to open the program documentation and links to online resources.

The Inzomia image viewer can be used in either Windowed or Fullscreen mode. In window mode the viewer has four windows and a menubar where only the image window needs to be visible:

All windows can be resized and moved and the windows snap to the image window and the desktop edges although this behavior can be turned off from the Preferences.

The image window displays the actual image. Zoom the image by holding down the right mouse button while moving then mouse forward or backward. Pan the image by holding down the left mouse button while moving the cursor. To load a new image double-click its thumbnail in the playlist window.

The image windows title bar displays the name of the image together with its pixel dimension and current scale.

You can drag images from other programs directly to the image window without first adding it to the playlist. You can for example possible view an image from Internet Explorer simply by dragging the image from the browser and drop it on the image window.

There are three sets of toolbar buttons inside the image window. By default the toolbar is hidden to allow as much as possible of the image to show. To show the hidden toolbar buttons make sure the image window is active, if it is not click somewhere inside the window, and move the cursor to the top of the window.

The playlist window displays large thumbnails of the images currently in your playlist. You can open an image from the playlist into the image window by double-clicking its thumbnail.

Working with the playlist

You can change the order of the playlist by dragging the thumbnails. Right clicking a thumbnail brings up a context menu.

The following commands are available from the context menu of a thumbnail:

Title	Description
Browse folder	Open the explorer window to where the image is located. If the image is from an archive the file browser will open the folder of the arhive file.
Remove	Remove the image from the playlist
Lock	Lock the image
Unlock	Unlock the image
Quick browse	Go to quickbrowse mode where the playlist window is large
Decrypt	Decrypt the image if it is encrypted. Not for public use yet
Print image	Print the image

Locked images will not be removed from the playlist when you select clear clear but they will be removed by the remove command. Locking images and using clear is very useful when you want to pick out a few images from a folder. Start by adding the folder to the playlist then lock the images you want to keep and finish by clearing the complete playlist and you are left with the selected images you locked. When you select "browse folder" the shell window will open the folder where the image is stored.

Just as you can drag images to the playlist window it is possible to drag images from the playlist window to other programs or the image window.

At the bottom of the playlist window there is a button area with the following functions:

Button Description Load Load a previously stored image playlist Save Open dialog to save the playlist Close Close down the viewer application Add file Add one or more image files to the playlist Add dir Add all image files in a directory to the playlist Prefs Edit program preferences. Preferences is described in detail in another part of the documentation. Remove Remove the selected files from the playlist Clear Clear all files that are not locked from the playlist Home Open the viewer start page Help Show this document Buy Show information about how to register the inzomia image viewer and support future development. About Display version information

The browser window is a complete Internet Explorer type web browser. When the Inzomia image viewer is installed it will display the tutorial. Later when you start the viewer it shows the viewer start page where you find places to search for images. If you computer is not connected to the Internet a local page will be displayed.

Right below the title bar in the Browser window you can find navigation buttons. Note that some of the buttons may be drawn outside of the browser window if it is small. As all windows the info window can be resized by dragging the edges of the window.

The browser window showing the Inzomia viewer start page with links to image resources.

The explorer window shows files on your computer and local network. Right clicking a file in the explorer window will bring up a context menu in the same way as in windows explorer. The context menu will also have an extra "open" item if the viewer recognizes the format of the file. Depending on the format of a file it will be opened in the image window, added to the playlist or shown in the browser window. You can drag files from the explorer window to the playlist window to add them to the current playlist.

The explorer windows can be used to browse our filesystem for images.

Working with playlists is key to getting the most out of the Inzomia image viewer. Playlists let you organize photos on your computer without the need for a database or to move them into a special folder.

Use playlists to create collections of your favorite images, to get an overview of image folders or to select a few images from many.

Playlists are also used to create slideshows.

Create a new playlist by:

Your playlist can always be played as a slideshow. Activate the image window and move the cursor toward the top of the window to view the image window toolbar. In the middle of the toolbar you have the buttons to control the slideshow. If you press the playbutton the slideshow will start from the first image in the playlist. Skip to the next or previous image with the next/previous buttons or use a shortcut. When a slideshow is playing you can also jump around in the playlist by double-clicking thumbnails in the playlist window. If you click the pause button the playlist will pause at the current image and continue when you press pause again. If you press stop the slideshow will stop and start from the first image when you press play again.

A slideshow can be saved as a small playlist, as a zipped playlist or as a self running exe slideshow which can be distributed for free to people who do not own the Inzomia viewer.

When you want to select a few images from a large image collection the lock function is a good tool to use. Find the thumbnails for the images you want to keep and select lock from the context menu. The locked images will get a small lock icon to indicate that the image is locked. The next step is to click the clear button to remove all images from the playlist except the locked images. Use this technique to search through large image collections to find the images you need. Add complete folders to the playlist to quickly scan for the image you search and switch between the playlist layout to see many thumbnails at the same time and the image layout to examine images.

When you are finished you can save the selected images to a new folder. If you also save a playlist with the images it will be easy to find the folder you picked the images from by using the "open folder" command from the context menu on a thumbnail.

When clicking the save button you will be prompted with a dialog to select the format to save in.

"Save playlist only" saves the playlist for use on the computer it was created on. The playlist uses absolute paths so the playlist file may be moved to another location as long as it is on the same computer as the images. The playlist file will be very small.

"Save playlist with images" saves the playlist together with all the images in the playlist. The stored zip file may be moved to another computer or for example burned on a CD. The playlist file will be large.

"Create a stand-alone slideshow" will save the playlist, image and a fullscreen viewer so that the slideshow will be played when the file is double clicked. This playlist can be used on computers that do not have the viewer installed.

"Copy all images to a folder" does not save the playlist but copies all images in the playlist to a folder. This is useful for example if you want to save grabbed images.

Printing an image is done by right clicking the image thumbnail in the playlist window. Printing is done in the same way as if you right clicked a .htm file (showing your image) in the windows explorer and select "print". If you have trouble getting the print function to work check if you can print by right clicking a .htm file from the windows explorer.

With the "Add Dir" function it is possible to quickly build a playlist from your digital image collection. Click the "Add Dir" button in the playlist window and the Add Dir dialog will be displayed. Select the root/top folder from where you want to start adding images. From the "Subdirectories" dropdown list you can select if you want to add images only from the selected folder or from the selected folder and its subdirectories. From the "In each folder" menu you can select if you want to add all images from each folder or just a few images. The "Include archives" lets you treat archives as subfolders in regard to how many images are added from a folder. The filenames field is a text string that must exist in all filenames to add. If the field is empty all images will be added, if for example the field contains the string "2006" all photos containing "2006" in the filename would be added and the rest of the files skipped.

For example: A folder contains one archive and 10 images, the option are set to add one image from each folder and to include archives. The playlist will contain the first image in the folder and and first image from the archive.

The ability to add only a few images from each folder gives you the power to quickly create a playlist with a sample of your image collection. It is then easy to go on and use the contect menu in the playlist to find the folders of the images you are interested and them. A good techinque is to use the lock function after each new add to be able to quickly clear away your initial playlist ones you have added the images you want.

When the Inzomia viewer is started from the desktop or the start menu the program is started in the browser layout.

If you started the viewer to view an image or folder you can select the browser layout by double clicking in the title bar of the web browser window.

To open the Inzomia viewer start page press the "Home" button.

The Inzomia image viewer home page contains a number of links to image search engines you can use to find images.

To enter a URL directly click the "Open" button in the browser windows toolbar.

To open a page from you favorites list click the "Favorites" button from the Explorer windows toolbar.

When a web page is loaded click on the "As Image" button to take a snapshot of the web page. The image will be loaded into the Image window and you will be presented with a dialog to save the image.

The Grab as image function takes the complete web page and saves it. There is no need to scroll the page as all parts are saved not only the area visible in the window.

Grabbing large web pages can consume a very large amount of memory. If the viewer needs to allocate what seems like too much memory a dialog will be displayed as a warning. If you decide you still want to continue there is a risk the program will crash or that other running programs will crash as they run out of memory.

When you click the grab button all photos on the current page and photos linked directly from the page will be grabbed. When a grabbed image is downloaded it is added to the current playlist. To cancel grabbing before all photos are downloaded click the "End grab" button.

The grab function only grabs the file formats you can add to a playlist. For example, gif images are not grabbed which is a good thing as gif images are normally used for design elements on web pages like logos, buttons and separators. In the preferences it is possible to set filters to prevent some images to be added to the playlist.

The browser window has a popup stopper that will warn you if a web page tries to open a new window. It is then up to you to allow the window to open or decline the request. In there preferences there is an option to always block all popup window if you do not want the dialog at al.

When visiting a web page that redirect you to another page it might be hard or impossible to use the back button since you are directly redirected to the page you came from. When you hold the shift button while clicking the back button you skip the previous page and go directly two steps back in the browser history and avoid the redirecting page.

The viewer has ten different window layouts you can switch between by holding down the "left Alt key" while pressing 0-9. When you change window sizes or position the changes will be saved in the current layout and used the next time you run the program.

Layouts 1 to 4 are each assigned to a specific window: Image window(1), Browser window(2), Playlist window(3) and Explorer window(4). These layouts can also be selected by double-clicking the titlebar of the respective window or pressing the button in the upper right corner next to the close window button.

When one of the window layouts is selected the Inzomia viewer will try to automatically select the right layout based on your actions. For example if the browser layout is selected and you doubleclick an image in the playlist window the layout will be change to the image layout.

The Inzomia viewer support viewing of many different media files not directly supported inside playlists. While it does not make sense to create a slideshow containing a movie but you still probably want to be able to look at it.

Viewing media files.

Media files are opened from the shell window and are played in the browser window. Locate the file you want to view in the shell window and double click it or select open from the context menu. If the media type is supported it should open up inside the browser window. If the format is unsupported the Inzomia viewer will try to open it through the windows shell. To view media files you need other viewers installed on you computer, for example to view pdf files with the Inzomia viewer you need to have the Adobe Acrobat viewer installed.

Viewing a Adobe pdf file.

Some media formats, for example avi movies, need a codecs to be installed on the computer for the media to play. The type of codec needed depends on how the avi file was originally encoded and separate codecs are required for audio and video. Some popular codecs include DivX (http://www.divx.com/), Cinepak (http://www.cinepak.com/) and Indeo (http://www.ligos.com/)

If you are missing a plug-in it will be downloaded automatically from the internet provided you have an internet connection. If for some reason this does not work download the plug-in from the developers web page. Windows media file can be found at www.microsoft.com, QuickTime can be found at www.apple.com, RealOne can be found at www.real.com and Adobe Acrobat Reader can be found at www.adobe.com.

Because the Inzomia viewer uses third party plug-ins to play media formats there is a possibility that a particular file does not play inside the viewer or in the worst case even crashes the viewer. If this happens try to download the latest version of the required plug-in, the media formats table lists what type of program is needed for the different types of media formats. Some media types require the right codec to work, make sure you have the codecs installed. If a movie plays without sound you are probably missing an audio codec, to solve the problem start to search the source from where you got the media file.

There is a very high likelihood that someone is looking at you photos, do YOU want that? Computers are vulnerable newly found breaches in windows, web browser and other software is discovered almost on a daily basis. People can get access to your photos for example by hacking, a virus, vlan, shared folders or simply by using the same computer as you.

By encrypting your photos with image encrypt you make sure it is you that decide who sees your photos. Encrypting images help you protect your privacy and secure company secrets. Viewing encrypted images is just as easy as viewing normal images with the Inzomia image viewer.

Some Features:

You can always get the latest version of the Inzomia image encryptor software at http://www.image-encrypt.com. After downloading the latest version run the installer program and follow the on screen instructions.

The inzomia image encryptor is available in a trial version and a registered version. The trial version can be used to encrypt up to 200 images and decrypt an Unlimited number of images. There is no time limit on the trial version, you will always be able to decrypt images you have encrypted.

The registered version can be used to encrypt and decrypt as many images as you want. The registered version also offer stronger security by supporting longer encryption keys. Buy the full version of inzomia image encrypt from our home page http:/www.image-encrypt.com.

Encrypted images can be viewed directly in the Inzomia image viewer provided you have access to the key for the encrypted image. The free version as well as the full version of the image viewer support decryption. Get the latest version of the Inzomia image viewer from www.freephotobrowser.com.

The General tab contains preferences that do not belong to a specific category.

The Performance tab contains preferences to improve performance on your computer.

The Navigation tab contains preferences to control how you pan and zoom the image in the image window

The Playlist tab contains preferences for the playlist window.

The Slideshow tab contains preferences for controlling slideshows. Preferences for transitions in general and in slideshows are selected on the preferences tab.

The Transition tab contains preferences to control how the current image should be moved out and how a new image should move in. There are only a few settings in the transition tab but its possible to combine them in many ways to combine unique effects.

From the shortcut tab it is possible to change the key combinations assigned to commands in the viewer. You can also add shortcuts to a number of commands that do not have default shortcuts. There are four possible shortcut categories for commands, one general category and one for each window. The general category will be active if the viewer is active while the window categories require that its window is selected. Changed key combinations are stored in the windows registry as other options.

The Inzomia image viewer does not contain Adware, Spyware or any other program installed without your knowledge.

Select Uninstall from the Inzomia folder in the start menu or uninstall the program from the add/remove programs option in the control panel.

The most common reason for the viewer to crash is that some other program earlier did crashed or did something illegal. Try to restart the computer and see if the problem goes away.

Another reason for the viewer to crash is problem with the graphics drivers. Try downloading new drivers from the manufacturer of your graphics card. If you have a laptop computer go to the manufacturers home page since laptop computer often have modified graphics drivers.

Try using a different bitdepth on the desktop and see if it makes a difference.

Check how much space you have left on your windows harddisk, working with images can take up alot of memory and if the swap runs out the program might crash.

If you do not manage to solve the problem please report it to us with as much information as possible. We sometimes get bug reports saying, Inzomia does not work, and with only this information we ca not do anything to solve the problem. The software does work on a lot of computers we need to know exactly what may cause it to not work on your specific computer. How do you reproduce the problem, does this happen when loading a specific file, what is your computer configuration? What bit depth do you use on the desktop. Do not forget to let us know the program you are having trouble with (Inzomia viewer 3, inzomia plug-in, Zoom Studio, Image encrypt etc)

The developers at Inzomia can be reached at tech@inzomia.com

A very few people have had problem viewing images in the viewer, for example the image window only displays a gray or white image. This has happened at start, when going to fullscreen or when playing a slideshow. The Inzomia image viewer uses DirectX to get hardware acceleration from your graphic card. This makes the Inzomia viewer depending on the drivers installed on your computer. The drivrs used by DirectX is not the same as used by normal windows, it is possible that slower image viewers work while the Inzomia viewer fails.

You should try to reinstall the drivers for your graphics card and perhapps try a different version of them. Getting the absolute latest drives is not needed but a simple reinstall may fix your problems.

On some computer system the tranitions can be a problem, try turning them of from the transition property page in the preferences.

First of all the computer may not use hardware acceleration. Always make sure you have the latest graphics driver for your computer. As an example the first windows 2000 version had disabled hardware acceleration for many of its default graphics drivers.

Another possibility is that you do not have enough video memory. This is usually not a problem today. If you have two megabyte or less video memory you can try setting the desktops bit-depth to 16 bit which may make a huge difference. Also try to make the image window smaller. Sometimes a few pixels smaller window can make the program run ten times as fast.

Virus scanners running in the background may make image loading slower if they are badly written or you are using an older computer.

Filesharing software often puts a heavy load on both your harddisk and cpu.

Open the performance tab in the setting dialog and try to disable mipmap filtering.

Feel free to link to us at http://www.izview.com. If you want need to host the viewer on your site we would like you to contact us first at sales@inzomia.com. We also offers customized viewers based on the 3.x version for bundling and promotion.

The viewer can display images in .jpg, .png, .bmp and .tga format. If you use the professional version of the viewer (registered) the common versions of the tiff image format is supported. The viewer can also read these image formats from inside a zip or rar file. Cbz, Cbr (comic books) files are also supported as they are archive files. The viewer recognizes folders and adds all the known images and zip/rar files in the folder when they are dropped on the playlist window.

The viewer also recognizes a lot of media formats listed in the media formats document including pdf, avi, mpeg and rm files. Media files can only be viewed with the viewer but not placed in a playlist.

There are a number of possible reasons for this, most having to do with problem with the plug-in doing the playback the file. Try to update the required third party plug-in as described in the media document also make sure you have the required codecs for the media file you want to view.

When files are added to the playlist everything that is added is first sorted alphabetically and then added to the bottom of the current playlist. You can rearrange the order of the playlist with simple drag n drop.