The jfig applet is based on the jfig bean and allows you to embed a FIG viewer directly into web-pages. Unlike embedded images, the user can both zoom and pan the figure, as well as select several rendering options (including grid, rulers, anti-aliasing, etc.).

Note that the additional applet download should be no problem even for modem users, because the software must be downloaded only once and the jfig-bean.jar archive file just takes approximately 250 KBytes. In fact, the additional software download might be more than compensated by the smaller size of the FIG figure files when compared to equivalent high-resolution PNG- or JPEG-files.

Please remember that Java applets are constrained by rather strict security checks; in particular, an unsigned Java applet can only load data (including figure files) from the same server that the applet itself was loaded. Unless you change the security settings by custom entries in your .java.policy configuration file, the jfig applets cannot access and display figure files from your local computer. (Check the documentation of your Java virtual machine for details, if you plan to use the jfig applet in your intranet).

Example: JFigViewerApplet

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Applet parameters

  URL                  specify the URL to parse and display, e.g.
                       http://yourserver/path/file.fig
                       file:/tmp/welcome.fig
                       file:/c/temp/welcome.fig

  debug                 enable verbose messages if "true"
  zoomfit               zoom-fit after loading the URL if "true"
  antialias             enabled if "true"
  renderquality         enabled if "true"
  showRulers            enabled if "true"

  defaultPopupMenu      enabled if "true"
  defaultKeyHandler     enabled if "true"
  defaultDragHandler    mouse-dragging enabled if "true"
  positionAndZoomPanel  enabled if "true"