Up until recently, our support of color documents has been, well, lacking. We’ve known this for a while, and it’s been a monkey on our back. Recently, we rolled out some major improvements to our color document support. Color docs look better everywhere, especially theater.
Theater still retains all of it’s usability, including highlighting, underlining, and redacting. In order to maintain this functionality with richer color evidence such as photographs, maps, or demonstratives we’re auto-detecting the “white percentage” of the document image in Theater. If the Document has a substantially high white percentage, highlights are done under the doc, as in the above call out. If documents have a low white percentage Theater automatically detects the difference, and the highlight is done over the image. You’ll notice a very slight difference in the highlight colors.
We made major improvements in the processing of color documents. Documents are now stored as 24-bit PNG files. By expanding our color palette to 24-bit we avoid dithering the image to produce a better looking, higher quality image. Unchecked, higher quality images usually generate larger file sizes, which take longer to load in your web browser. To improve your experience we took measures to trim all the extra image glut. Our advanced auto-color reduction algorithm tests uploaded image files to determine if they’re color, grayscale, or monochromatic and creates files appropriately. Along with a few other color reduction techniques we create better looking images with smaller file sizes to improve your trial preparation experience. Even photographs look great.
