Deep Zoom Composer Updated to Fix an Export Related Bug

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Hi everyone,
We have released an update to last week’s Deep Zoom Composer release to address a fairly serious bug related to the image paths we generate during export. You can download the latest version from the following location:

dzcicon Download Deep Zoom Composer

As always, please uninstall all existing versions of Deep Zoom Composer before installing the new version.

The export related bug we fixed has to do with image tiles not loading when you export using our custom templates. If you exported using the Default template, everything worked great. To summarize the problem and the solution, if you looked at dzc_output.xml, in our earlier release, we produced URLs to images that looked as follows:

<Items>
<I Id="0" N="0" Source="/dzc_output_images/chrysanthemum.xml">
<Size Width="1024" Height="768" />
<Viewport Width="2" X="-0" Y="-0" />
</I>
<I Id="1" N="1" Source="/dzc_output_images/desert.xml">
<Size Width="1024" Height="768" />
<Viewport Width="2" X="-1" Y="-0.75" />
</I>
<I Id="2" N="2" Source="/dzc_output_images/tulips.xml">
<Size Width="1024" Height="768" />
<Viewport Width="5.1975051975051949" X="-1.5987525987525975" Y="-1.9490644490644482" />
</I>
</Items>

The change we made is to remove the leading slash that appears in front of the XML file. The output now looks as follows:

<Items>
<I Id="0" N="0" Source="dzc_output_images/chrysanthemum.xml">
<Size Width="1024" Height="768" />
<Viewport Width="2" X="-0" Y="-0" />
</I>
<I Id="1" N="1" Source="dzc_output_images/desert.xml">
<Size Width="1024" Height="768" />
<Viewport Width="2" X="-1" Y="-0.75" />
</I>
<I Id="2" N="2" Source="dzc_output_images/tulips.xml">
<Size Width="1024" Height="768" />
<Viewport Width="5.1975051975051949" X="-1.5987525987525975" Y="-1.9490644490644482" />
</I>
</Items>

If you already have existing projects that you don’t feel like re-exporting using our new version of Deep Zoom Composer, then feel free to manually remove the leading slash from the image Source value in dzc_output.xml.

Cheers!
Kirupa & Janete