MST Viewer

MST Viewer is a Document Management solution by MS Technology that allows users to view images and documents located in their Enterprise content management system. The viewer's main function is to process AFP and MO:DCA file formats but can process many other file formats including JPEG, Bitmap, and TIFF. MST Viewer allows users to view, save, annotate, print, convert, manipulate, crop, merge, zoom, rotate, and much more. MST Viewer is the viewer embedded into IBM's DB2 Content Manager 8.x solution.

Functions

A few of the functions include:

User Interface Options

  • Resizable, free floating window
  • Thumbnail image selection
  • File menu image selection
  • Customize to support corporate branding using your logo, colors, and labels
  • Customizable tool bar, add remove buttons at runtime
  • Tree View

Viewing Images

  • Auto detection of image formats
  • View images and documents from your local hard drive or network
  • Streamed image display avoids dead time when downloading new images
  • Multiple page support
  • Image display, zooming, scrolling, rotation
  • Fit to height or width
  • Rotation in 90 degree increments
  • Thumbnails
  • Aspect ratio correction
  • Pan button
  • Working Set / Multi-Part Document Support

Create & Annotate

  • Create new documents using cut, copy, paste, merge, and save functionalities
  • Annotate ANY format supported and save the document with annotations without modifying the original document.
  • Draw freehand or use standard annotation shapes
  • Insert bitmaps
  • Merging annotations with the image
  • Ability to resize objects and the annotation will remain linked with the underlying image
  • Rotate annotation data
  • Add sticky notes with text edit capability

Conversion

  • Auto detection of image formats
  • Automatic pixel depth conversion
  • Convert in memory for higher speeds

Manipulation

  • Crop, paste, merge, and save
  • Image Cleanup
  • Image Enhance
  • Scale-to-gray resizing for 1bit images
  • Bilinear Interpolation for resizing Bi-Level images
  • Bi-Cubic Interpolation for resizing color images.

Printing

  • High resolution printing (300, 600, 1200 dpi)

Scanning

  • TWAIN

Supported File Formats

Some of the file formats supported are:

ASCII

IOCA (MO:DCA)

PTOCA (MO:DCA)

ABIC

JBIG

RLE

AFP (MO:DCA)

JBIG2

RTF

BMP

JPEG

SVG

Brooktrout

JPEG2000

TIFF

CALS

MO:DCA

TIFF Group 3/Group 4

CLIP

MO:DCA Uncompressed

TIFF JBIG

DCX

PBM

TIFF JPEG

DICOM

PCX

TIFF Uncompressed

DOC

PGM

TXT

DJVU

PNG

WMF

EPS

PPM

XLS

GIF

PCL

XML

Group 3

PDF

XPS

Group 4

Solutions that can integrate with MST Viewer

  • ECM Documentum
  • IBM DB2 Enterprise Content Manager 8
  • IBM FileNet
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Oracle Universal Content Management
  • OpenText eDocs
  • ColumbiaSoft Document Locator
  • Hyland Software OnBase

See also