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Version 5.0 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:16 pm
by Alex
Version 5.0 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

What's new in this version of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK:
  • Viewers
    • Increased overall performance of viewers.
    • Viewers now do most of operations asynchronously.
    • Added ability to link viewers, for example, link together the thumbnail viewer, image viewer and annotation viewer.
    • Created PaletteViewer control for viewing and editing of palette.
    • Created AnimatedImageViewer control for slide show viewing of images.
    • Added the possibility to handle e.Handled flag while calling the following events: CopyKeyPressed, CutKeyPressed, DeleteKeyPressed, InsertKeyPressed, SelectAllKeyPressed.
  • Codecs
    • JPEG2000 codec created (see VintaSoftJPEG2000.NET Plug-in).
    • GIF codec created:
      • Supported formats: GIF87a and GIF89a.
      • Pack GIF file by the use of animation optimization (lossless).
      • View animated GIF files (AnimatedImageViewer control).
      • Combine some images and save them to a new multipage GIF.
      • Merge several GIF files into one.
      • Possibiity to display both page and frame.
      • Add/insert/delete/change page order.
      • Set the animation repeat count or endless mode.
      • Set the delay between frames.
      • Change page's palette.
      • Add pages with local palette (lossless).
      • Add pages by the use of global palette.
      • Delete page's local palette to reduce the file size (lossy).
    • BMP codec created:
      • Supported formats: Indexed1, Indexed4, Indexed8, Bgr555, Bgr565, Brg24, Bgr32, Bgra32.
      • Supported RLE compression for Indexed8 format.
      • Change resolution and palette without rewriting the whole file.
      • Get a thumbnail without uploading of whole file into memory.
  • Image processing
    • Created oil painting effect filter (OilPaintingCommand).
    • Added ClearImageCommand, GetAlphaChannelCommand and SetAlphaChannelCommand.
    • Improved ResizeCanvasCommand.
    • Optimized overlay algorithm: during overlaying of 8-bit images the transparency is taken into account now.
  • Demos
    • Demos structure is revised. Common independent parts are concentrated in DemosCommonCode assembly.
    • Improved Annotation Demo: added AnnotationsToolStrip control - independent panel with annotations.
    • Created Gif Animator Demo - fully functional animated GIF editor.
    • Improved Thumbnail Viewer Demo: added an example of Folder Thumbnail Viewer realization.
  • Allowed direct pixel access: get/set pixel color for any image format.
  • Increased overall performance.
  • Some major and minor fixes.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftAnnotation.NET Plug-in:
  • Optimized work of annotated thumbnail viewer algorithm, increased performance.
  • Added color blending functionality in Highlight Annotation type.
  • Draw annotations on the Graphics object.
  • Create annotation without rotation possibility. No rotation point shown when such annotation selected.
  • Improved Annotation Demo. Added AnnotationsToolStrip control - independent panel with annotations.
  • Added the possibility to show tool tip for annotation.
  • Some minor fixes.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftPDF.NET Plug-in:
  • Supported decoding and encoding of secured PDF documents.
  • Supported decoding and encoding of JPEG2000 images in PDF documents using VintaSoftJPEG2000.NET Plug-in.
  • Supported PDF file attachments: view, retrieve, add, delete, change description and compression parameters.
  • Supported color blending in PDF page rendering.
  • Supported new color spaces: CalGray, CalRGB, Lab, DeviceN.
  • Supported non-indexed JPEG images based on CMYK color space.
  • Supported Type 4 function (PostScript Calculator).
  • Supported decoding of 2-bit images.
  • Pdf Editor, Pdf Structure Editor and Pdf Reader Demos contain now an implementation of font replacement algorithm for case when the font is not to be found.
  • Some minor fixes.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftJBIG2.NET Plug-in:
  • Some minor fixes.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftJPEG2000.NET Plug-in:
  • JPEG2000 .NET decoder:
    • View JPEG2000 images created in compliance with ISO/IEC 15444 specification. Supported extensions: jp2, jpc, j2k, j2c.
    • Decoding of JPEG2000 images:
      • 8-bit gray and palette (incl. those with Alpha-channel)
      • 24-bit
      • 32-bit
    • Load JPEG2000 image from file or stream.
    • Get common image params: width, height, palette, resolution, color space.
    • Get JPEG2000 specific params: file format, tile size, quantity of wavelet (decomposition) levels, number of layers, progression order.
  • JPEG2000 .NET encoder:
    • Create JPEG2000 image compliant with ISO/IEC 15444 specification.
    • Encoding of JPEG2000 images:
      • 8-bit gray and palette (incl. those with Alpha-channel)
      • 24-bit
      • 32-bit
    • Write JPEG2000 into file or stream.
    • Encode with the use of additional syntax of JP2 file, which can contain the following metadata: image resolution, color space, palette (if present).
    • Supported lossless and lossy encoding mode.
    • Set the required file size or the compression ratio in lossy encoding mode.
    • Set the required number of wavelet (decomposition) levels.
    • Set the progression order.
    • Set the tile size.
    • Set the layers number and the share of image quality for each layer separately.
    • Choose whether the alpha channel (if present) should be encoded in image palette.

Version 5.0.1.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:48 pm
by Alex
Version 5.0.1.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

What's new in this version of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK:
  • Fixed small bugs in the image viewer and thumbnail viewer.
  • Fixed bug in TIFF decoder in decoding of CCITT3 images.
  • Fixed bug in JPEG decoder in decoding EXIF metada.
  • Fixed bug in destructor of ImageViewerBase class.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftAnnotation.NET Plug-in:
  • Added ability to annotate and zoom images with different horizontal and vertical resolution in the annotation viewer.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftPDF.NET Plug-in:
  • Fixed small bugs in PDF decoder.
  • Added ability to edit bookmarks in Pdf Editor Demo.
  • Improved work with corrupted PDF documents. Added the ability to restore Xref table of PDF document.
  • Added ability to use external font program for CID TrueType fonts.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftJPEG2000.NET Plug-in:
  • Memory usage is optimized.
  • Fixed small bug in JPEG2000 decoder.

Version 5.0.1.3 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:15 pm
by Alex
Version 5.0.1.3 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

What's new in this version of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK:
  • Fixed bug with centering of image in the image viewer.
  • Fixed bug in PNG encoder.
  • Improved TIFF decoder (CCITT3 and CCITT4 compressions).
What's new in this version of VintaSoftPDF.NET Plug-in:
  • Improved algorithm of PDF decoder.

Version 5.0.1.5 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 4:15 pm
by Alex
Version 5.0.1.5 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

What's new in this version of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK:
  • Fixed bug in JPEG encoder.
  • Improved perfomance of JPEG encoder.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftJPEG2000.NET Plug-in:
  • Fixed bug - previous versions work only in .NET 2.0 SP2 and higher. Now Plug-in works in .NET 2.0 and higher.

Version 5.0.1.7 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:11 pm
by Alex
Version 5.0.1.7 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

What's new in this version of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK:
  • Increased speed of TIFF decoder in multi-threading mode when progress indicator is used.
  • Fixed bug in magnifier.
  • Fixed bug in BMP decoder.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftPDF.NET Plug-in:
  • Fixed bug in parsing of images compressed with CCITT3 algorithm.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftJPEG2000.NET Plug-in:
  • Fixed bug in decoder.
  • Fixed bug in encoder.
  • Improved memory usage in decoder.

Version 5.0.2.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:00 pm
by Alex
Version 5.0.2.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

What's new in this version of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK:
  • Added ability to get index of thumbnail in the thumbnail viewer when thumbnail is painting (ThumbnailPaintingEventArgs.ThumbnailIndex property).
  • Improved convertation algorithm of 8-bpp gray image to 4-bpp gray image.
  • Improved algorithm of TIFF decoder. Now TIFF images with "bad" metadata can be loaded.
  • Fixed bug in TIFF decoder. Now TIFF images with CCITT3 2D compression are loaded correctly.
  • Fixed "drag-and-drop" bug in Thumbnail Viewer demo.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftAnnotation.NET Plug-in:
  • Fixed bug in decoder of WANG packet with annotations. Now local codepage is used for parsing text data.

Version 5.0.3.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:54 pm
by Alex
Version 5.0.3.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

What's new in this version of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK:
  • Fixed some bugs in JPEG codec.
  • Increased speed of JPEG decoder by 20%.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftAnnotation.NET Plug-in:
  • Changed the drawing algorithm of thumbnails in the annotation viewer.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftJPEG2000.NET Plug-in:
  • Added multi-threading in JPEG2000 codec (decoder and encoder)

Version 5.0.5.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:55 pm
by Alex
Version 5.0.5.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

What's new in this version of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK:
  • Fixed bug in the image viewer - index of focused image is not changed after inserting image in the image collection of viewer.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftPDF.NET Plug-in:
  • Improved parsing algorithm of in-line images.
  • Fixed bug in parsing of Type1 font.
  • Fixed bug in parsing of stream parameters.
  • Fixed bug in text extraction algorithm.

Version 5.0.7.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:42 am
by Alex
Version 5.0.7.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

What's new in this version of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK:
  • Fixed bug in the Selection visual tool.
  • Fixed bug in the Drag-and-Drop Selection visual tool.
  • Fixed bug in the Dispose methods of viewers.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftAnnotation.NET Plug-in:
  • Fixed bug in WANG annotations parser.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftPDF.NET Plug-in:
  • Optimized algorithm of Xref parser.

Version 5.0.8.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:57 pm
by Alex
Version 5.0.8.1 of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK has been released.

What's new in this version of VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK:
  • Fixed bug that caused an error in the license compiler (LC.exe) during compilation of project in Visual Studio. Bug is present since version 5.0 and occurs because the license compiler creates instances of the licensed classes (ImageViewer) during compilation of project.
What's new in this version of VintaSoftAnnotation.NET Plug-in:
  • Improved algorithm which generates an appearance of annotation in PDF document.
  • Fixed bug in WANG encoder and now a carriage return character is saving correctly in WANG annotations.