VintaSoftAnnotation.NET Plug-in is a developer's tool which allows to work with annotations: create, process, delete, merge with the image, save or load from XML, TIFF or JPEG file. The library suits for digital document imaging purposes.

We recommend to use this program as plug-in to VintaSoftImaging.NET Library.

Features:

• Programming environments: .NET Framework 2.0 or higher
• This is a fully-managed .NET library to guarantee the fast working in .NET Framework
• Create the annotation collection associated with the image
• Add any number of annotations to annotation collection
• Ability to customize built-in or create custom annotations
• Ability to fully control interaction of annotations with mouse
• Preview image with annotations in the image viewer
• Preview thumbnails with annotations in the thumbnails viewer
• Ability to rotate image with annotations on custom angle
• Remove annotations from annotation collection
• Merge image with annotation collection
• Calculate length and angle in the image
• Save annotations to an XML file in XMP format from Adobe
• Load annotations from an XML file
• Save annotations to TIFF or JPEG file in XMP format from Adobe
• Load annotations embedded in TIFF or JPEG file

Individual annotation features:

• Move, resize, rotate and mirror annotations
• Change the background color of annotation, set transparency
• Add or remove border to annotation
• Edit text of text or rubber stamp annotation
• Change text parameters of text or rubber stamp annotation
• Use annotation's rotation assistant
• Use caps for Line annotations

Supported annotation types:

• Line - draws a line
• Lines - draws a polyline
• Freehand - draws a freehand line
• Ruler - draws line and calculates its length
• Rulers - draws some lines and calculates theirs overall length
• Angle - draws two lines and calculates angle between these lines
• Rectangle - draws a rectangle
• Square (rectangle with symmetry) - draws a square
• Ellipse - draws an ellipse
• Circle (ellipse with symmetry) - draws a circle
• Polygon - draws a polygon
• Freehand polygon - draws a freehand polygon
• Embedded image - draws an image from internal source
• Referenced image - draws an image from external source
• Text - draws a text
• Free text - draws an editable text area and a leader polyline
• Link - draws a hyperlink
• Rubber stamp - draws a rubber stamp

Custom annotations:

• Triangle (VB.NET, C#) - draws a triangle

You can use this library in your programs written in any programming languages compatible with .NET technology.
VintaSoftAnnotation.NET Plug-in was tested and has examples of use for:

• Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2005 / 2008
• Microsoft Visual C# 2005 / 2008
• ASP.NET 2005 / 2008

System requirements:

.NET Framework / Microsoft Visual Studio .NET / Internet Explorer

Supported platforms:

Windows 98 / Me / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista, .NET Framework 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5