VintaSoft JBIG2 .NET Plug-in

Version 9.4 (version 12.4 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK)

.NET development:
- Increased the performance of JBIG2 decoder up to 20%.
- Increased the performance of JBIG2 encoder up to 15%.
- Fixed the bug in algorithm that decodes data of JBIG2 image.

.NET development:
- Added support for .NET 7 in Windows, Linux and macOS.

.NET development:
- Added cross-platform support for Windows, Linux and macOS in .NET 6, .NET 5 and .NET Core 3.1.
- Now the JBIG2 codec does not depend on System.Drawing.Common library and does not require a drawing engine for encoding or decoding of images.

.NET development
- Supported platforms:
  - Added the support for .NET 6 for Windows.
- Supported development environments:
  - Added the compatibility support for Visual Studio 2022.
- Supported operation systems:
  - Added the compatibility support for OS Windows 11.
  - Discontinued the compatibility support for OS Windows Server 2003.

.NET development
- Supported platforms:
  - Added the support for .NET 5 for Windows.

.NET development
- Supported platforms:
  - Added support (without UI controls) for .NET Core 3 for Windows.
    Created the following .NET Core assemblies:
    - Vintasoft.Imaging.Jbig2Codec.dll
  - Discontinued support of .NET Framework 2.0. Now SDK supports .NET Framework 4+ and 3.5.

Fixed the bug in arithmetic decoder.
Assemblies were renamed and made changes in structure of namespaces. For more information click here.

Optimized the memory usage while encoding multipage JBIG2 files.
Optimized the algorithm of lossless encoding mode:
- Speed increase 3%.
- Average file size decrease 2%.
- Optimized the memory usage.
Improved algorithm of adding symbols to symbol dictionary in lossy encoding mode.
Optimized encoding in lossy mode:
- Speed increase 30%.
- Optimized quality of outgoing image (fewer inaccurate symbol substitutions, table destructions etc).
- Optimized the memory usage.
Optimized JBIG2 decoder algorithm (speed increase 3%).
Fixed some minor bugs in decoder and encoder.

Fixed the image distortion bug in JBIG2 lossy encoding algorithm with enabled symbol dictionary.
Optimized the memory usage and increased performance.
Some minor fixes.

Created the ability to decode and encode standalone black-and-white JBIG2 image and JBIG2 streams in PDF.
Created the ability to convert any supported image format to JBIG2 and vice-versa.
Created the ability to work with multipage JBIG2 file: create, manipulate pages, merge, split.
Created support for arithmetic decoding and encoding.
Created support for MMR decoding and encoding.
Created support for Huffman table decoding (standard and user-supplied).
Created support for Lossless or Lossy compression.
Created the ability to use symbol dictionary for more effective compression.
JBIG2 demo created.