Photos (Hippo Sized)
for iPhone & iPad
Got a favourite photo from your hi-resolutions Camera? Or a panoramic view from a set of Photos. Don’t like what your default Photo app does with it? Reduce the scale, reduce the quality. Why suffer?
The strongest feature we have is we don’t do that irritating tiling rendering, scroll, wait wait dance. Ick. Smooth zooming, smooth scrolling even for wall sized documents.
We read file formats: AVS, BMP, CUR, DIB, FITS, FTS, GIF, ICON, JNG, JP2, JPEC, JPEG, JPG, MAT, MIFF, MTV, MVG, PBM, PCX, PGM, PICT, PIX, PNG, PNG8, PNG24, PNG32, PNM, PPM, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIFF, TIF, TIM, VIFF, WBMP, WPG, SBM, XPM
Or some forms of: CALS, INLINE, MONO, OTB, PALM, PAM, PCD, PCDS, PFM, PICON, PTIF, RLA, SCT, SFW, SUN, VICAR, JPEG2000, TIFF
email for details.
We incorporate logic from our FAX reader product, to read TIFF based one page gigantic photos.
Dropbox Storage:
We are licensed to use the Dropbox developer api. We only read data from Dropbox, we never send data to Dropbox, delete files or touch your Dropbox directory structure. When you use the DropBox screen we present a file/folder view of your Dropbox directory, Dropbox gives us the file thumbnails. Tap to navigate the folder hierarchy, or tap to download a file. We show the file download progress as Dropbox gives us the contents of the file, once downloaded the file size will turn to blue to indicate we have a copy of the file on the iOS device for immediate access.
After the file is downloaded we convert image based files to a format we can work with in the Hippo View. This takes time, but you can put Photos in the background and let it work for a limited amount of time. Usually what will happen is that it will show at the bottom of the screen a blue bar with: "Hippo View", the name of the file and either "Estimating" when we are busy deciding how to process the file, or a file size 1280x980 as we crunch the data, or a counter that counts down as we process chunks of the file. Different colours are used to show state, Green for thumbnails, Blue for Hippo View, and Yellow or Orange if the image is > 15 MegaPixels.
After downloading a file, we take you to the Hippo View screen where you can either choose to open the file with "Preview", other document handlers that might support the file, or open as an image file.
You can also copy image files into the app by Saving to the Photo Library and doing an import or by doing “Copy” if the other app allows it so you can “Paste” into our app, however this is not suggested for very large photographs.
Local Storage:
You can copy documents into Photos by using iTunes to copy files into, delete, or out of the app. You can also if given the choice ask Photos to open documents from other Apps. Like email for example. Photos does not need to be running if you want to ask it to open documents from other apps. When Photos sees new local files to process it builds thumbnails, this activity shows as a green 'Thumbnails:' status bar with the file name and dimensions, once it completes building all the thumbnails it will begin building "Hippo Views" of all the files.
The Hippo View.
Once you are at the Hippo View screen you can choose to either use the iOS Preview App to look at the file, use some other application to open the document via the far right toolbar button, or open the file in Photos via the leftmost toolbar button. For image files we will work with photos well over 100 mega-pixels, you will find Photos quite responsive.
About * Support * Email
From this screen you can read this help text, but you can also tap 'App Review!' to give us a great review in the App Store, or tap 'Email support' to directly send our tech team email with diagnostics if supported by your iOS device. We do not send any information from the contents of your files but in the email attachment do send information that includes the names of the files, sizes and dates. If you wish not to send that information just delete the file attachment from the email message when you complete the written body of the email message.
Repair
Oops stuff happens. We try hard to catch issues and on this screen you can tap to select problem documents to take repair actions. This might mean reprocessing the thumbnail or doing the "Hippo View" processing again if it did not complete. Sometimes we think the file is unreadable because of file transfer issues and might ask you to copy it onto the device again. Otherwise we ran out of free space? Always ensure you have enough free space on the device when you want to process large numbers of documents.
Processing is slow?
Terminating other running apps helps a bit, if you have a need to process lots of image files please email us and we can talk further about other options we are pursuing to make the "Hippo View" process faster.
Crashes?
Yes email us. This can happen if the image is too big, we run out of space, or we've a bug. You may need to send us the problem document so our engineers can review it.
Copyright 2010 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd.
Warranty information:
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
Privacy information:
