Acordex DocView

Acordex DocView is a Windows and MacOS compatible application for viewing all types of documents in TIFF format, including color, black & white and gray-scale. With Acordex DocView, TIFF images will literally snap onto your screen. To try DocView, just download the demo software which will provide you with a 2 week trial.

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Feature list

Enlarge or reduce the image size
Rotate: 90, 180, 270 degrees (at any zoom factor)
Scale to gray: enable/disable
Zoom to Area
Drag and drop support
Panning with cursor (hand cursor)
Cropping to new file or clipboard
Multipage TIFF support, page forward/back and goto page.
Multipage documents can be printed in one click and page ranges can be specified in the print dialog.
Printed TIFF documents are automatically scaled to fit the printer page, as defined by your currently selected printer.
Printing takes advantage of the full resolution of the TIFF file for best clarity on paper.

Additional features on Windows

After installation, double click on any file with the ".tif" extension to view.
After installation, right click on any file with the ".tif" extension and select "Print" from the pop-up menu to print.
Uninstall feature directly from the file menu restores previous system state.

Additional features on Macintosh

Automatic interpretation of numbers at the end of file names as page numbers for paging through documents that are stored as single TIFF pages in sequentially numbered files.
Apple event and Apple script support for opening and printing images.
Saving of page or a range of pages in seperate single page TIFF files, using either TIFF Group 3, Group4 or Macintosh PICT format.

Quick Guide for DocView on Windows

Pan image:	Click and drag in the image area, or use scroll bars
Zoom to area:	Hold down the shift key while clicking and dragging in the image area to draw a rectangle to enlarge.
Copy region to clipboard or file:	Hold down the Ctrl key while clicking and dragging in the image area to draw a rectangle to copy. Choose "Save Selection" and "To clipboard" or "As BITMAP" from the "File" menu\.
To print:	Choose "Print" from the file menu
Supported on:	Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP

Quick Guide for DocView on Macintosh

Pan image:	Hold down the control key while clicking and dragging in the image area, or use scroll bars
Zoom to area:	Hold down the shift key while clicking and dragging in the image area to draw a rectangle to enlarge.
Copy region to clipboard:	Hold down the option key while clicking and dragging in the image area to draw a rectangle to copy. Choose "Cut" from the "Edit" menu.
Save region to file:	Hold down the option key while clicking and dragging in the image area to draw a rectangle to copy. Choose "Save Crop" from the image menu.
Supported on:	All Macintosh computers running any version of OS X

TIFF Formats Supported:

TIFF documents compressed with the following are supported:

CCITT Group 4
CCITT Group 3 1-D and 2-D
TIFF Mode 2 (a variation of CCITT Group 3)
GIF Style Color, CompressionType 5 (Windows only)
Packbits, CompressionType 32773 (Windows only)
Uncompressed (Windows only)

Both Intel 'II' and Motorola 'MM' style byte ordering in the header are supported.

Bit ordering with the image data from high bit to low bit (TIFF Standard) is recommended. The TIFF Spec does provide a FillOrder tag for reverse bit ordering but recommends not to use reverse bit ordering or the tag. DocView does support this feature, but other TIFF viewers may not, so deploy with caution.

Tags Supported

ImageWidth
ImageLength
BitsPerSample must be 1 (i.e. Black & White)
SamplesPerPixel must be 1 (i.e. Black & White)
Compression types 1, 2, 3, 4)
StripOffset (may be multiple strips)
StripBytesCount
Group3Options (cannot support uncompressed mode)
Group4Options (cannot support uncompressed mode)
XResolution (resolution assumed to be dots per inch)
YResolution (resolution assumed to be dots per inch, may be approximately half X resolution for low res faxes)
FillOrder tag for reverse bit ordering

All other tags will not produce an error, but will not be interpreted.

Multi-page TIFF

Multi-page TIFF documents are supported. When a TIFF document with more than one page is used, the menu items: "Next Page", "Previous Page", and "Goto Page" are enabled. When switching from page to page, the zoom level, page rotation and gray scale attributes are kept the same. The maximum allowed pages in a TIFF document is 1000 on Mac OS, unlimited on Windows.

Contact Acordex for:

Production imaging systems to replace microfilm
Large multi-user database and imaging solutions
High performance imaging components for your imaging solution
Software development projects, including customization or enhancement of DocView
High performance Macintosh-based systems
Cross-platform intranet systems that support MacOS, UNIX, Windows
Consultation and design of innovative solutions that fit your computer environment