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Help Contents

• Image Surfer Pro Overview

• Image Surfer Pro Toolbar
  • File Operations
  • Image Surfer Pro Forms
  • Processing Webpages
    • Directed Search
  • View Fusker Collection
  • Tools & Settings
    • Grabbing Images
    • User Preferences
      • Auto Ranging Configuration
      • Directed Search Configuration
      • Auto Optimize Configuration
      • Image Surfer Pro Forms
      • File Handling
      • Fusker Collection Views
  • Information
    • Check For Upgrade
  • Auto Range Override
  • URL Capture Bar

• Image Surfer Pro Fusker Collection View
  • Tree Segments
  • Tree Menu
    • Visualize
    • Auto Range
    • Modify
      • Numeric Fusks
      • List Fusks
    • Optimize
    • Organize
    • Split
    • Roll Up
    • Insert / Delete
    • Nudging

• Examples

• Processing Direct Images
• Processing Free Hosted Galleries
• Creating ISP Forms
• Processing Image Surfer Pro Forms
• Viewing Fusker Collections
• Removing Missing File References
• Using Auto Range Override
• Using The URL Capture Bar
• Rolling Up A Tree Branch
• Multiple Fusks Per URL Level

• Additional Topics

• Accessing Image Surfer Pro
• Copy Image URL Menu Extension
• How Segments Merge
• Adding Non-Image Files
• Limitations of the Free Version
• Missing Files
• Best Practices
• Definitions

View Fusker Collection
The Binoculars Button

Building a fusker collection is all about one thing - Viewing the images the way you want! As you build your fusker collection and add images to it some custom webpages are built to show you what you have done, but none of it compares to viewing and reviewing entire fusker collections.

This button provides a one click interface to access the images of your fusker collection in exactly the way you want. It takes the current selection in the Fusker Collection View and displays the images referenced under that segment based on the type of view you have configured in the Image Surfer Pro preferences.

Types of Visualization

You may customize the type of visualization to be used at each level of a fusker collection through the {Binoculars Button} block of configurations on the Views Tab your preferences. The four levels of a fusker collection are defined as:

• Collection / URL: The top most node of the fusker collection and its immediate children
• Root Directory: The domain name, network computer name, or drive letter where the images are stored
• General Directory: Any directory in the tree below the Root Directory
• Image Sequence: Any file segment in the tree

There are four types of visualization available:

• Basic: Displays the first image from each pictorial below the current selected node
• Expanded: Displays every image referenced below the selected segment in a continuous sequence
• Guided: A combination of Basic and Expanded, a Guided visualization generates a cover page of images as with Basic - but each image references an expanded view of the pictorial the image was a part of
• Webpage: Attempts to navigate the IE display window to the root directory of the tree branch. This option is only available at the Root Directory or below.

Using this button is intended to give you flexibility in customization and convenience of a one click interface. To explicitly choose the type of visualization to display regardless of the preferences configuration, use the Visualize option from the Fusker Collection View menu.

Display Across Multiple Pages

In addition to configuring how the images will be displayed, you also have the option of configuring how many images per page will be displayed when viewing your fusker collection. Typically you will want to limit the number of images placed on each visualization page based upon the estimated size of the images and the relative amount of memory your computer has. If you place more images on a page than IE can allocate memory for, some of the images will not be displayed and IE may be come slow to respond or even lock up.

Generally speaking 32bit operating systems can provide up to 2Gig of memory per running instance of IE. The 64bit version of windows removes this constraint and the true 64bit version of IE will likely be limited by the amount of memory installed rather than some system limit. The various versions of Internet Explorer and Windows can make it quite confusing... however, the Image Surfer Pro installation generally makes operation transparent.

IE9
When using IE9 on 64bit installations of Windows, two versions of IE9 are installed and functional. The 32bit version of IE9 will be the default browser, but the 64bit version of IE9 will also be installed. When Image Surfer Pro installs on a 64bit installation both the 32bit and 64bit versions are installed. When you run either version of Internet Explorer, the Image Surfer Pro extension will be available and use the same user preferences. In fact you can run both the 32bit and 64bit versions of IE at the same time.

Image Surfer Pro fully supports Protected Mode in both the 32bit and 64bit versions of all Internet Explorer installations.

IE10
Unlike IE9, when IE10 is installed on a 64Bit version of Windows a single version of IE10 will be installed. The 64Bit version of IE10 runs a 64Bit window with either 32Bit or 64Bit tabs based on whether or not the advanced internet option Enhanced Protected Mode is enabled.

On 64bit versions of Windows7 Enhanced Protected Mode has no real effect on operation and Image Surfer Pro is fully supported. On Windows8, the added application context prevents Image Surfer Pro from navigating the browser window to the locally created visualization pages. So while the 64Bit version of Image Surfer Pro is installed, it is not able to display the image content of your fusker collection.

Enhanced Protected Mode is disabled by default in IE10 and Image Surfer Pro will work as you expect with no configuration change to IE. The number of images you can display on a page will be limited by system memory and not the 2Gig memory boundary.

IE11
IE11 is very similar to IE10 when it comes to 64bit vs. 32bit - however, by default Enhanced Protected Mode is enabled on 64bit versions of IE11. In order for Image Surfer Pro to work with 64bit versions of IE11 you must change the advanced internet options to disable Enhanced Protected Mode when running on Windows8 or later.

You should experiment with settings to determine the correct settings for your system, the images you typically view, and your specific taste.

When more than one page is required to display the images from your fusker collection you will notice links placed at the top and bottom of the pages.

This link is placed at the top of each display page after the first page. It will take you back one Visualization page which displayed the previous set of images in the visualization.

This link will take you forward one Visualization page to the next set of images in the visualization. This link is at the bottom of every page except the last page of the visualization.

Image Surfer Pro Visualization Pages

Image Surfer Pro visualization pages are standard HTML pages built by Image Surfer Pro and stored in a temporary directory on your computer. The files are removed when the IE tab associated with the instance of Image Surfer Pro which created the files is closed. When more than one page is used to show the visualization, the pages are linked at the top and bottom of each page via "relative" links. This means they can be copied to other locations or even published directly to the Internet.

Images on Image Surfer Pro visualization pages are shown at full resolution in a continuous manner without line breaks. You may use the IE zoom feature to change the size of the images on the screen. The number of images displayed on each page is controlled by your Image Surfer Pro preferences.

Each image is a clickable reference. Hovering over the image will bring up an information tag which tells you what the image links to. In some visualization types images on some pages will link to additional images from the related portion of the fusker collection. For example, images on "guide" pages link to "expanded" views of the pictorial that contains the image. In other pages the image provides a direct link to the image file. Because of this, expanded and basic visualization pages can be treated as Free Hosted Galleries (though the thumbnails are in fact full size images).

Non-image files and missing files are also shown on the visualization pages. Both types of files appear as missing file blocks in the visualization files. There may be reasons for adding non-image files to your fusker collection, but care should be exercised in ever accessing a file through a missing file block.

Related User Preferences:

Views Tab: Binoculars Button:
The four drop down lists allow you to choose the type of visualization webpages will be built by the Binoculars Button based on the type of segment you have selected in the Image Surfer Pro Fusker Collection View.

Views Tab: Page Limits::
In almost all cases you will want to limit the number of images placed on each page when viewing your fusker collection. The two text entry controls allow you to customize the number of images based on the size of the images in your fusker collection, the amount of memory your computer has, whether your computer is 32bit or 64bit, and how many images you want to see on a single page.

Differences in Free and Full Versions

There are no differences in the capabilities of the free and registered versions of Image Surfer Pro as they relate to visualizing fusker collections. The primary differences between the Free and Registered versions of the software are their ability to build fusker collections. The Free version of the software is primarily a viewer for the fusker collection files.

Screen Capture Examples

Using a sample fusker collection, the visualization examples walk through how changes in configuration change your fusker collection webpages. Download the sample fusker collection file and follow along with the examples or just read through the examples to get a basic understanding.