Overview of Prizm Viewer

Prizm Viewer provides powerful browser-based image display, annotation, manipulation, navigation, and printing of many image formats using Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers with exceptional image display speed and quality. For the complete list of MIME types supported by default and available for user selection, refer to the Supported MIME Types topic. For a complete list of supported file types, refer to the Supported File Formats topic.

The customizable toolbar is filled with tools to annotate, add notes, zoom, spot magnify, rotate, mirror, print, save, and more. Centralized control over the Prizm Viewer configuration allows enterprises to use the same viewer to serve multiple departments or user groups with appropriate tools.

To understand how Prizm Viewer compares with other browser-based image viewing technologies, read Reliable Document Image Viewing: Through Thick and Thin.

Refer to the Prizm Viewer Administrator Tools topic for more information on new features.

Main Administration Tasks

Prizm Viewer allows the ability to fully customize and configure the viewer which is described in this help file. There are a number of administration capabilities including:

Installation - This is described in the Installing Prizm Viewer topic.
Customization - This is described in the Customize the Install section of this help file. To get started, refer to the Overview of Customizing the Install section. For more information, refer to the Prizm Viewer Configuration Application help file.
HTML Development and Embedding tags - This is described in the Embed Prizm Viewer in a Web Page topic.
XML Administration and Configuration - This is described in the Overview of Customizing the User Interface topic.

Prizm Viewer has many administration configurable features including:

Creating and Modifying List Files

Creating, Modifying and Storing Annotations

Menus

Toolbars

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