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Emagie
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Image getting cropped in flash (Imagevue.X2.8.2)

05 Aug 2012, 09:38

Hi, Imagevuex

I just installed the demo of Imagevue.X2.8.2, and I was quite disapointed to see that in Flash all my picture were cropped , I thought I did not set the software right at first , but then I investigated the issue:

Tested with "portrait" type picture

If the picture height is bigger than (about) 3000 pixels it will get cropped by the flash display, and there is no way to zoom out to see the whole picure.
the way I see it is that any pixel above 3000 get disgarded.

This does not affect the HTML gallery

I do not know if it's a limitation of the software or a limitation of Flash it self, but I would recommand you to put some warning that bigger than xxx pixels won't be displayed right..
I Was really disapointed, first fex picture I upload.. none Display right :(

Cheers..
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Image getting cropped in flash (Imagevue.X2.8.2)

06 Aug 2012, 01:31

Good question. This is however related to the Adobe Flash player:
Adobe wrote:Note: The maximum dimensions of a bitmap in Flash Player is limited to 2880 pixels in either direction (width or height). If you attempt to create a BitmapData instance that is larger than this restriction, the Bitmap will not be created. This limit is in place to keep people from creating Flash movies that gobble up the client’s RAM. A bitmap that is 2880 x 2880 pixels, will use roughly 32MB of RAM.
I would normally question why you need to have that size images directly in the gallery interface. A visitor needs to wait for 2MB or more to load? After it is loaded, the image will normally be resized down anyway to fit within the visitors stage. The only benefit left, is for those visitors using the zoom function to zoom in and view the details. I am not sure why someone would do this unless it is a painting or something and they are going to purchase the photo. Furthermore, what about the mobile version? You want each image to load at >2MB for mobile devices? Likely the bandwidth and patience of visitors will lead them away from your gallery.

Having said the above, there may be a way I know about to raise the limitation to around 4000x4000 if this is of importance to you.
 
Emagie
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Re: Image getting cropped in flash (Imagevue.X2.8.2)

06 Aug 2012, 14:08

Thank you mjau-mjau. So it was a Flash limitation as I suspected.

I'm willing to try your trick to raise the bar to 4000.

Best regards
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Image getting cropped in flash (Imagevue.X2.8.2)

07 Aug 2012, 02:17

Try this imagevue2.swf, exported for Flash player 10, which should support ~4100px in both sides.
https://d.pr/f/6DR6

*Remember to empty all your caches after uploading and replacing the imagevue2.swf file ...

Also, I would consider your mobile version if I was you. Your images must be 4MB or higher I assume, and not many people will want to wait for these to load into a mobile interface on averagely much lower bandwidths.
 
Abalam
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Re: Image getting cropped in flash (Imagevue.X2.8.2)

20 Sep 2012, 08:00

Thanks, it works good for me now !
The limit is 4100px now ?
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Image getting cropped in flash (Imagevue.X2.8.2)

20 Sep 2012, 11:31

Abalam wrote:Thanks, it works good for me now !
The limit is 4100px now ?
Not exactly, but Flash player now supports up to 16,777,215 pixels in a bitmap, because of memory limitations. It could be 4096 * 4096, or it could be 8000 * 2000 ... As long as total pixels do not exceed the above figure.