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Deep Zoom Composer - Known Issues
- 0Hi everyone,
To help us out with prioritizing bug fixes for future Deep Zoom Composer releases, let's use this thread to centralize all of that feedback. Please respond with any issues you find, and I'll try to keep this list updated with our progress in addressing them as well.
Open Issues
- Transparent PNG support does not work when exporting as Composition.
- Highest levels of details in Compositions are sometimes not composited.
- Poorly worded/designed error dialog when stitching fails.
- Occasionally, the design surface fails to display all of the images even though internally they are there (export works, ie). (link)
- Aspect ratio in SparseImageSceneGraph is occassionally inaccurate.
- XML output for SparseImageSceneGraph needs to be locale invariant.
- Project files occassionally do not open - even if created in the same version of DZC.
- Making the paths in DZPROJ relative instead of absolute.
- Importing images whose names are the same but come from different folders leads to the wrong images being displayed on the artboard. This also leads to the wrong images getting exported as well.
- Giving the user more control over where temporary images are generated, and having SparseImageTool provide useful error messages when disk space has been exhausted.
Thanks,
Kirupa- Edited bykirupaModeratorMonday, August 04, 2008 7:08 PMaddd
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- Edited bykirupaModeratorMonday, August 18, 2008 5:16 PMasdf
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- Edited bykirupaModeratorMonday, September 08, 2008 6:10 PMsadf
- Edited bykirupaModeratorWednesday, September 17, 2008 4:07 AMasdf
- Edited bykirupaModeratorThursday, October 02, 2008 4:17 PM....
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- Transparent PNG support does not work when exporting as Composition.
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- 0I cant seem to open the solution file DZ creates in VS2008 with SP1 Beta. The error message is
"The project type is not supported by this installation"
I tried to open the same solution in Blend 2 and got a pop up message
"Opening "DeepZoomProject" failed:
The imported project c:\program files\msbuils\microsoft\silverlight\v2.0\microsoft.silverlight.cshap.targets" was not found. Confirm that path is the <import> declaration is correct and that the file exists on the disk ....."
Jay - 0Hi Jay,
You need to have the latest version of Blend 2.5 (June Preview) installed:
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/default.aspx?filter=prerelease
Also, make sure you have the latest version of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 installed:
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/installationFiles.aspx?v=2.0
Let me know if that works for you =)
-Janete - 0I got both, just checked again but on Blend if I try to open up the solution file that was created by DP I get the above error message. Do I need Visual Studio also ?
Jay - 0Just to let you guys know. I installed every thing on a brand new box and all worked fine.....now i just need to figuer out whats wrong with my box. may be time to unisntall and install vs2008
- 0It may just be a bad install of the Silverlight Tools. Do you know if you have those installed on the other machine?
- Edited bykirupaModeratorMonday, August 04, 2008 5:32 AMedit
- 0I hope these are constructive and useful comments, since I really like the product.
I am still having trouble with my 100 image tiles (each 8K x 8K pixels). I can create the project and export it in one session. But when I reopen it, I get about 65 of the tiles, (the rest are reduced to 1x1 pixels). It is also a pain to delete them one by one.
I also note that the scroll bar for the added images is not friendly to arrow keys, and seems to be missing the bottom.
It might be useful also to give us a guide if there are any cache or memory settings that are more favorable to large projects, or if we should be using the SparseImageTool.exe?
I noticed that batch import/export was removed.
I would love it if one could press mouse wheel to pan when using the Selection tool.
Dr. YSG - 0New bug and a fix.
Bug: 1) Create a new project on drive C. 2) Add an image, compose and export the image. 3) All is well. 4) deploy the image and use it in Silverlight Beta2. 5) Move the complete directory to drive "I". 6) open the project and observe that your image is not there. (If you copy the project instead of move it then it seems to work fine.)
Reason: The *.dzprj uses absolute paths in the <Image> tag. Since the image has moved, the project cannot find things. (If I had copied the project then <Image> would still point to the images on C and it would think that all was ok.)
When you open the project on "I", after moving it, it cannot find the files and when you close the project - to try to find out what happened - DZC cleans out the <Image> tag. So, it seems that everything is lost.
Fix: Move the projects back to their original location and manually fill in the <Image> tag to point to the following files (in my case I only had one image per project so this is possible):<File>C:\...\myimage.jpg</File>
<Tree>C:\...\working data\my_files</Tree> - 0I guess the fix doesn't work.
There is also a <TotalSize> tag. and I don't know how to restore that information. By adding the above two tags the images are visible and you can compose and export but without the <TotalSize> tag getting restored I am not confident what will happen later. I think it is safer to delete these projects and restart.
The moral of the story, at least as far as I am concerned is, don't move your projects after they have been created.
Using this information I went looking around in my other projects and found that there are several that have this problem. The reason that they still work is because I copied the projects from the original locations and did not delete the originals. So, I am going to look into each of my projects and try to edit the absolute addresses (the TotalSize tag looks ok). I think I can correct most of my "large" projects.- Edited byK2P2 Monday, August 25, 2008 10:20 PMadditional info
- 0Kevin - I'll look into seeing if we can make all of the absolute paths relative in our next release.
- Edited bykirupaModeratorMonday, September 08, 2008 6:06 PMasdfasdf
- 0Hi..
I would like to share an unusual experience using the 3 August 2008 version of DZC.
My project is 14 images wide, and 12 images high, each image being 1200x740 pixels in dimensions.
I have laid out and tested my layout at my home computer, and everything looks just as i had laid them out. So i copied the project folder to my ext hard disk so I could continue work at the office the next day. However, just out of curiosity, before I left for work,\ I opened up my .dzprj in DZC and though at first everything seemed as I had left it the previous night, I noticed an anomaly.
As I mentioned before, my msi is to be 14x12 images, everything up til row 9 is as I had left it. All my images on rows 10 to 12 however, seem to either be in the wrong positions, or missing altogether.
When I say wrong position, meaning if I originally placed them as abcdefghijklmn, when I reopened the project file the images on row 10 were at hkajlgiencdmfb. Row 11 was another different order altogether, row 12 was in the wrong order, and columns 7 to 14 were missing completely.
I'm sure I saved the project before I closed DZC the previous night, because the Save Project option was greyed out.
Any solution for this? Because it is quite time consuming to have to always double check the layout when transporting/uploading to another location.
Thanks. I can't wait for the final release!
tori
- 0Tori - that is something that we have encountered as well, and we will be making improvements ensuring that what you save is what you actually get when you open the project again in Deep Zoom Composer.
Just out of curiosity, what locale is your computer running in? (EN-US, etc.?)
Also, if you don't mind, could you please e-mail me your .dzprj file to kirupac[at]microsoft.com? I believe I have an idea why that is happening, but I'd like to be sure you aren't running into an issue we are not aware of.
Cheers!
Kirupa- Edited bykirupaModeratorWednesday, September 17, 2008 4:10 AMasdf
- 0Hello to everyone,
I'm the author of the freeware AndreaMosaic that creates photographic mosaics. Those mosaics are made of many tiles, usually not less than 2000, but the program can handle very big mosaics (the professional version up to 8 gigapixel mosaics). I added an option that creates automatically a DZPROJ file.
Originally this option created an image for every tile of the mosaic. But I realized that DZC is having troubles handling a high number of images (for example 20000). The exports are loaded very slowly into the browser, and a lot of flickering happens because the images are not aligned perfectly. I don't know if this is an issue of DZC or Silverlight. The wrong alignment happens also with few images.
I modified the program exporting a lower number of pieces that compose the mosaic (see the Split Mosaic option). In that situation it was possible to create very large mosaics. The drawback is that I loose any information about each single tile of the mosaic because they are grouped into large images. It would be nice to have a silverlight project with some context sensitive features. For example when I click over a single tile a new browser window will open a link to the source image. Probably the only solution is to add some custom handlers that use a server side database for retrieving the currently selected tile based on the position of the mouse pointer. A local file is too big especially with very large mosaics (made with 500000 tiles!)
I think it can be useful to use AndreaMosaic for testing large compositions with DZC.
byee
Andrea
- Edited byAndreaPlanet Friday, October 03, 2008 11:42 PM
- 0@Tori: I had the same problem, and managed to figure out what was going wrong. I've blogged the solution here: http://www.robfe.com/2008/10/how-to-fix-a-dzproj-file-when-deepzoom-composer-has-mangled-your-compositionnodes-ids/
Let me know if that helps! - 0Hi there,
it seems like I am the only person with the problem desribed in the next lines.
I already opened a discussion before with no solution, yet.
The main problem lies in the disappearance of several images after eporting my project as single images.
It doesn't matter if I use silverlight or ajax export.
I made some tests and uploaded the final stand to:
http://www.ispam.de/deepzoombug/index.html
Maybe someone has an idea of how to fix that problem.
Tanks a lot
Claas
- 0I downloaded the latest version this morning - with an existing project (I haven't tried a new one yet) it invariably crashes when I select "Export".
- 0Hi Kevin,
Does it happen on a new project as well?
Thanks,
Kirupa - 0Hi Kirupa,
I installed the Jun 2009 version and export my images as Seadragon Ajax + Export as a composition (single image). There are STILL images missing which I reported sometime ago. Is there any plan to fix the problem????????????
Thanks
Peter - 0Using the latest drop, I have what I believe are two issues:
First, when using the Composer, if I zoom in or out on the main image, and then drag an image from the Images pallet, the newly added image is not scaled properly based on the zoom level, so it is essentially impossible to compose your final image once you zoom in or out.
Second, the export process has yet to successfully export my image correctly. My main image is made up of a series of images that are 1890x3180. And even in what I would consider a small export that consists 4 rows of 6 of these images, the export never matches what is shown in the composer. My images are of the front and back of certain items - so my first two rows show the fronts, and the second two rows show the obverse. When viewing the export, it shows 4 rows of the obverse.
Thanks,
Bob
