Upgrade to Prizm Viewer v10

Prizm Viewer will support most Prizm Viewer v9 (legacy) features. However, support for legacy features will be dropped in future versions of Prizm Viewer. You are strongly encouraged to upgrade your application to current Prizm Viewer standards.

Prizm Viewer contains a number of new features that earlier versions of Prizm Viewer did not offer. To take advantage of these new features, there are changes that you may need to take to your web application. The following provides more information about changes you may need to make to take advantage of the new features.

HTML

Prizm Viewer can use the same HTML object/embed tags that previous versions of Prizm Viewer used, so no changes to your HTML are required to move to Prizm Viewer. There are new features that are available through additional tag/property values. See the Embed Prizm Viewer in a Web Page topic for more information.

List Files

Prizm Viewer provides support for prior Prizm Viewer version (legacy) list files. However, there are significant new features that are available when using a list file that are not available when using legacy list files. See the Create List Files topic for more information.

Annotations

If you are upgrading your web application, and your web application includes the use of Prizm Viewer annotations, refer to the Annotations topic for more detailed information.

Customization

Prizm Viewer works with HTML created for prior versions of Prizm Viewer. Following is a list of object/embed parameters used to customize features in prior versions of Prizm Viewer, and how Prizm Viewer v9 or later will treat them.

Parameter

Prizm Viewer Actions

AnnCGI

Sets the AnnotationServer property to a properly formatted value

BgColor

Sets the ImageWindowBackgroundColor property to the value provided

ClipFunction

If the value is false:
- adds “-copytoclipboard” to the RestrictedCommands property

CreateAnnFunction

If the value is false:
- adds “-editannotationsgroup” to the RestrictedCommands property

Ebar

If the value is true:
- sets ArrangeToolbars property to “None, Print, ZoomIn, ZoomOut, RotateLeft, RotateRight, MouseFlyingMagnifiertool, MouseZoomRectangleTool, PreviousPage, NextPage”
If the value is false:
- no action

ExportFunction

If the value is false:
- adds “-ExportGroup” to the RestrictedCommands property

ImageInfoFunction

If the value is false:
- adds "ViewImagePropertiesWindow" to the RestrictedCommands property
- adds "-ImagePropertiesWindow" to the ArrangeDockingWindows property

InitDisplay

If the value is:
    - "FULLIMAGE", sets the ImageZoomToFit property to PV_ZoomToFit_Full
    - "FULLWIDTH", sets the ImageZoomToFit property to PV_ZoomToFit_Width
    - "FULLHEIGHT", sets the ImageZoomToFit property to PV_ZoomToFit_Height
    - "BESTFIT", sets the ImageZoomToFit property to PV_ZoomToFit_Full
    - "ACTUALSIZE", sets the ImageZoomToFit property to PV_ZoomToFit_1to1Ratio

LocalCache

Ignored

MemCache

Ignored

OCRFunction

Ignored

PageNum

Sets the InitialPageNumber property to the value provided

PDFResolution

Ignored

PictNum

Sets the InitialPageNumber property to the value provided

Sets the Mode property to PV_Mode_Print

PrintFooter1

Sets the InitialPrintFooter1 property to the value

PrintFooter2

Sets the InitialPrintFooter2 property to the value

PrintFooter3

Sets the InitialPrintFooter3 property to the value

PrintFunction

If the value is true:
    - adds “Print” to the ArrangeToolbars property
    - adds “PrintingGroup” to the ArrangeMenu property
If the value is false:
    - Disables the “Print” feature

PrintHeader1

Sets the InitialPrintHeader1 property to the value

PrintHeader2

Sets the InitialPrintHeader2 property to the value

PrintHeader3

Sets the InitialPrintHeader3 property to the value

Rotation

Sets the InitialImageRotation property to the value

SaveAsFunction

If the value is false:
- adds “-ExportGroup” to the RestrictedCommands property

SaveAnnSilent

ignored

Security

If the value is 0:
    - ignored
If the value is 1:
    - set the AnnotateFromInternet property to false
If the value is 2:
    - Set the AnnotateFromInternet property to false
    - add “-EditAnnotationsGroup, -ViewAnnotationsGroup” to the RestrictedCommands property
If the value is 3:
    - set the AnnotateFromInternet property to true

Stext

Sets the InitialStatusText property to the value

Toolbar

When this tag is encountered, it will begin by setting ArrangeToolbars to “none”. For each of the toolbar codes that have an entry in the opposite column, it will add that value. If the opposite column states "Not Used", that setting will be ignored.

Code	Setting added to ArrangeToolbars:
0	Not Used
AE	“Mouseselectannotation”
AM	“Mouseselectannotation”
AR	“Mouseselectannotation”
AS	“Zoomfit1to1ratio”
BC	“Brightness”
CB	“CopyToClipboard”
DA	“Deleteallannotations”
DB	“Mouserectangleannotation”
DE	“Mouseellipseannotation”
DH	“Mousehighlightannotation”
DL	“Mouselineannotation”
DN	“Mousenoteannotation”
DS	“Mousestampannotation”
DT	“Mousetextannotation”
EX	“Export”
FH	“Zoomfitfullheight”
FI	“Zoomtofitfullimage”
FM	“Mouseflyingmagnifiertool”
FW	“Zoomfitfullwidth”
HP	“Mousepantool”
II	Not Used
LA	“Reloadannotations”
LF	“Firstpage”
LG	“Gotopage”
LL	“Lastpage”
LN	“Nextpage”
LP	“Previouspage”
MS	“Mouseareaselectiontool”
NC	“Mouseselectannotation”
OR	Not Used
OS	“Resetallpagesettings”
PF	“Firstpage”
PG	“Gotopage”
PL	“Lastpage”
PN	“Nextpage”
PP	“Previouspage”
PR	“Print”
PT	“Preferences”
RL	“Rotateleft”
RR	“Rotateright”
RW	Not Used
SA	"Revertannotations"
SF	Not Used
SI	“Export”
VI	“Viewinnewwindow”
Z+	“Zoomin”
Z-	“Zoomout”
ZS	“Mousezoomrectangletool”

ViewImageItem

If the value is false:
- Add “-ViewInNewWindow” to the RestrictedCommands property

ViewAnnFunction

If the value is false:
- Set InitialShowAnnotations to false
- Add “-ViewAnnotationsGroup” to the RestrictedCommands property

ZoomAbsolute

Set the InitialImageScaling property to the value / 10,000

ZoomArea

Set the InitialImageRect to the specified rectangle

If the ZoomRect value contradicts this setting, the ZoomRect value will be used

ZoomRect

Set the InitialImageRect to the specified rectangle

Features No Longer Supported

The following features are no longer supported in Prizm Viewer v8 (and later):

OCR functionality is not available
The user interface for brightness/contrast has changed
Viewing of ASCII text files is no longer supported
LocalCache and MemCache tags/directives are ignored
Batch downloading is no longer available
Several printing options are no longer available:
- Expand multi-sheets
- Print as single job
- Print acceleration
- Rollform printing