Help for Displayator and the Displayable Creator

• What is a Displayable.
• Sample Displayable(s).
• Create your own Displayable.
• Get a Displayable into your Displayator app:
  • Using iTunes file sharing.
  • Using the Displayable Creator application.
  • From the Internet.
• Acknowledgement
• People

What is a Displayable.

A Displayable is a transformed copy of an image so that it can be seen in full resolution on an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. You can create this transformed copy with the free “Displayable Creator” application running on a computer.

Displayables allow you to view your images at their original resolution. They can be created from big, very big or super big images.

Sample Displayable(s)

You can choose from a list of free, ready to download Displayables from displayator.com by tapping on this link.

Create your own Displayable

To create a Displayable, you need an image in the BMP, PNG, GIF or JPEG format (but not JPEG CMYK). You need to run the image through the free "Displayable Creator application, available at [www.displayator.com][displatator]. It is a Java application, so you need to have the Java runtime installed on your computer (version 1.5 or newer. If Java is not already installed on your computer, you can get it from www.java.com.

Here is how to create a Displayable:

• Launch the Displayable Creator.
• Drag an image onto the “Drag and Drop” text.
• The creator then automatically creates the Displayable.
• The new Displayable is then added to the Share Displayable list and is ready to be downloaded or saved.

The Displayable creator only read your image and create the Displayable in a temporary file.

You can save your Displayable: click on the Edit icon and then select the location in which you want to save it.

Once the Displayable is created, it is automatically added to the Share Displayable list and automatically available on your local network.

Get a Displayable into your Displayator app:

You can transfer a Displayable from your computer to your iPhone or iPod Touch in three ways:

• Using iTunes file sharing.
• Using the Displayable Creator application, running on the same Wifi network as your Displayator app.
• By tapping on links a with special url prefixes.

Loading Displayables using iTunes file sharing:

Warning: this only work on devices with iOS 3.2 installed or newer (it can’t work on the original iPhone or iPod Touch).

In iTunes:

• Synchronize your iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch.
• Select your device in the list on the left.
• Select the apps section to see those installed on your device.
• Bellow the list of apps, in the list of apps that use file sharing select “Displayator”
• Drag and drop your Displayable onto the list of “Displayator Documents”.

On your iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch:

• Restart Displayator.

The Displayable(s) should now be visible in the list of Displayable on your device.

Loading Displayables using the Displayable Creator application.

For this method to work, your computer and your iPhone need to be connected to the same Wifi network.

On your computer:

• Open the Displayable Creator application.
• Click on the “Choose Displayable” button.
• Navigate to your Displayable or its parent directory, select it and click “Choose”.

On your iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch:

• Launch Displayator.
• On the start screen, tap on the “Download Displayables” item.
• The list of Displayable shared by your computers on your wifi network should appear.
• Tap on the one you want and then tap on the “Download” button.

Once the download is completed, you can view the Displayable on your device.

Loading Displayables from the internet:

The Displayator app is configured to handle links with the following prefixes :

• displayator-image: for a single Displayable.
• displayator-list: for a list of Displayables. example.

Tapping on links with the above prefix from within the iOS web browser will launch the Displayator and offer to download the linked Displayables.

The Displayator Creator can create a directory containing the displayables you want to share and a web page containing the links described above. Once you upload this directory and send a link to the web page toother Displayator users, they too can download those Displayables on their iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch.

More details are availables on the Displayator website.

Acknowledgments

The Displayator app rely on the following open source libraries:

• ASIHTTPRequest by Ben Copsey. Used for Displayable transfer over the network.
• TouchJSON by Jonathan Wight. For figuring out what are the available Displayables.
• Reachability by Andrew Donoho. To see what kind of network is available. Also used by ASIHTTPRequest.

Also, the sample Displayable were created from the following images:

• The “XKCD Online Communities 2” image is a creation of Randall Munroe of XKCD licensed under the Creative Common “Attribution-Noncommercial” 2.5 Licence.

People

I thank the following persons for supporting me and testing early versions of the app.

Thank you very much Annet, Daniel, Cyril and Stefano.