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Dear OpenSliders:<br>
<br>
I always needed a Windows viewer for many different slide formats...<br>
Thus, in addition to our VM / Smart Zoom platform for Universities,
Smart In Media has now released a Windows-based viewer for OpenSlide
and SZI-images: The Smart Zoom Viewer. It's a portable software, so
you can just download the ZIP, unzip it to e. g. a USB stick and run
the "SmartZoomViewer.exe". You can view slides with the software or
with most of the browsers. If you find bugs, pls report either
through the contact form or to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@smartinmedia.com">info@smartinmedia.com</a><br>
<br>
As a thank-you to the OpenSlide community, we will currently<b>
grant free licenses to academics and researchers</b>. <br>
You can download the software at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.smartzoom.com">http://www.smartzoom.com</a> (go to
Smart Zoom Viewer).<br>
To apply for a free license, you can fill out the form on the page
and we'll reply. <br>
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Greetings from Cologne<br>
<br>
Martin<br>
<br>
PS: SZI is the "Smart Zoom image format" defined by John Cupitt and
me. It's a way to present high resolution images very fast. To
convert an OpenSlide image to a SZI image, just use VIPS, e. g.:<br>
vips dzsave bigimage.svs bigimage.szi --overlap=0 <br>
and it'll create an SZI, which can also be opened with our viewer<br>
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