Viewing MrSID and JPEG 2000 Images on the Mac

LizardTech (WA, USA) has announced support for viewing MrSID and JPEG 2000 files on the Mac OS X platform. With LizardTech’s ExpressView Browser Plug-in for Macintosh users can access MrSID and JPEG 2000 images from Apple Macintosh OS X 10.2 and 10.3. The plug-in for Mac is free and installed as a plug-in for Apple’s Safari browser.

Key features included in the ExpressView Browser Plug-in for Mac include the ability to view, magnify, print and save geospatial images in MrSID Generation 3 format and JPEG 2000 format. Mac users who are fans of the intuitive graphic user interface and full screen mode performance are now able to drag the image zoom larger and smaller at the click of the mouse. Additionally, features like multiband image viewing support and image data caching, which increases viewing speeds, are also included. A standalone application mode for use without the browser also comes with the free plug-in. Users can save their images as PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP, and limited-resolution TIFF files.