Can we expect to view and preview jpg images in Laserfiche anytime soon?
Hi there,
You say JPGs plural - where can you view JPGs "converted" as tifs in an image gallery/multiple thumbnail preview mode?
Users want to display multiple photos in an image gallery /thumbnail view. Not have to click each tif image and wait for it to load in the preview mode. that means 40 clicks for 40 photos.
Having to convert to tif and join images in one document to mimic a thumbnail strips out the file name and metadata of the photo, in which legal investigations are critical at times.
Thanks for the additional detail, Denny. We don't currently have a gallery view solution for JPGs, and I'm adding yours to the use cases we have for the feature request.
This is a major pain point and is one of the most requested features by out staff, and should be a pretty basic feature already available. Thanks.
It's definitely a request we've heard before and something we have in our backlog. We don't currently have it targeted for a release.
Can you expand on your use case, e.g. where the images come from? Do you know it's possible to have jpg images converted to pages of a document when they are imported?
Hi Brian,
I have a few cases in which a large amount of jpegs and other photos will be imported into Laserfiche. I know about the conversion either through the Import Agent or the Web Client but that is not always an acceptable solution for the end user, especially those in graphic design. I was hoping that the Laserfiche image viewer would soon be able to view and preview other image formats so that I could migrate the files in their native format and put the users at ease. I know this may not be a priority, but I also cannot see this being a big deal to implement. While this does not happen, we will keep some of the photos in the Windows file system. Thanks
Hi Brian,
I don't mean to be a squeaky wheel, but I am being forced to make a decision about a large migration of jpgs into Laserfiche. If we cannot expect a jpg viewer for any release within 2020, I will have to alter our plans accordingly.
Thank you for your time on this.
Use Cases:
-We are developing a corporate image library and due to no previewer LF is looking like an unlikely option;
-Fire dpt takes pictures at scene and uploads to their file
- Bylaw Dpt takes pictures of investigative files
- engineering/capital projects are taking progression pictures at different stages of major capital projects
- building inspectors are taking pictures of their inspections;
- we take pictures of corporate and staff events to have a library of
So many use cases. All of which are of a major paint point for me, and one of our strongest requests corporate wide.
JPGs can be previewed within the repository, as they can be converted to TIFF images so they can be annotated like other imaged documents. They can also be downloaded as JPGs (converted from the TIFF image). Denny, would this work for your municipal needs? Granted, the current flow may not be ideal for graphic design use cases.
Is there any update on this? We have a ton of documents in the repository that have no preview.
We did add this. I don't recall the exact version that introduced it, but it's present in the current release of both Cloud and self-hosted.
Hi Brian, thanks for the update. can you add a few more details to where a jpg preview can be seen in the system? I'm not seeing it in the desktop client:
Chris, it may not have been added to the Windows Client and only the Web Client.
I'm the desktop version 11 and .jpgs don't show up under preview but other documents do. Web client 11 has the ability to preview jpg documents.