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Graphics Mill ActiveX by Aurigma

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Add comprehensive imaging functionality into your applications. Graphics Mill 2.0 is a set of powerful, fast and memory-friendly components which resolve most image processing requirements: load/save files of most popular formats, enhance, transform, display, reduce colors, combine images, draw imagery, etc. It includes a handy control which allows you to zoom, pan, scroll image, select areas of the image and so on. Graphics Mill 2.0 also allows you to apply color management (using ICM 2.0), so you can handle CMYK images gracefully.

Main Principles of Graphics Mill Design

Provides rich imaging capabilities for developers. Impliments most features necessary for the development of imaging applications

Fast and memory-friendly image processing. No implied conversion between pixel formats is made, thus you will never have unexpected extra memory consumption

High quality image processing (thanks to various interpolation techniques)

Reliable architecture which prevents memory leaks and deadlocks

Intuitive API which is easy for ASP and Visual Basic programmers to use

Use modern Microsoft technologies such as drawing via GDI+. In fact, GDI+ is one of the most high-quality and powerful drawing engine nowadays.

Imaging Core Features

These features can be used when developing both Web applications and desktop software:

Load and save images:

Support of various formats:

JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, TIFF, BMP - read and write

PCX, PSD - read only

PDF, SWF - write only

Capability to load (as well as save) images from various sources: files, streams, arrays

Loading thumbnails on-the-fly from huge images without heavy memory consumption. For example if you generate 100x100 thumbnail from 4000x4000 image, Graphics Mill allows you to avoid occupying 64 megabytes (as would happen if you first loaded the image, then resized it). It can create thumbnail while reading image from file, so you will never consume extra memory

Process images in their natural formats:

Graphics Mill allows you to load and save images in their natural pixel formats: 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 bits per pixel. So if you load a 1-bit image, it won't be converted to 32-bit image (which avoids occupying 32 times more memory space). Most effects can be applied directly on RGB, Grayscale and CMYK images without conversion

Color management:

Load and save embedded ICC profiles in files

Conversion between color spaces (RGB, CMYK and Grayscale) based on ICC profiles

Display images on screen using device profile. Ability to use two profiles together (to see how the image will look on the target device)

Color reduction to 2-256 colors:

Generate different palettes:

Windows

Macintosh

Web Safe

Adaptive

Various dithering techniques:

Error Diffusion (8 algorithms - Floyd Steinberg, Fan, Jarvis, Original, Stucki, Sierra, Burkes, and Stephenson)

Ordered Dithering (2 algorithms - Bayers and spiral)

White Noise.

Combine images with full support of alpha channel and various combine modes (such as Add, Xor, Substract, Texturize, Screen, Overlay and others - 22 modes)

Use various metrics when applying effects, get dimensions, draw lines, curves, shapes etc. You can use the following measurement units: pixels, points, inches, document units, millimeter and percents (relatively image dimensions).

Provides various events, including progress notification (which allows to display progress bar). You can display progress bar not only in desktop software, but also in web application.

Ability to interrupt all operations using timeout. It is especially important in ASP preventing excess load on server (and thus denial of service).

Apply various transforms:

Resize (12 interpolation algorithms, including Scale-To-Gray for 1-bit images displaying)

Rotate (precise rotation on small angle, antialising, fast rotation on 90, 180 and 270 degrees)

Crop

Flip

Swirl

Wave

WaterDrop

Cylindrize

Skew

Custom affine transform

Custom projective convex transform. It allows you to produce perspective effects, etc.

Adjust image colors:

Hue/Saturation/Lightness

Brightness (both automatic and manual)

Contrast (both automatic and manual)

Levels (both automatic and manual)

Channel Balance

Desaturate

Invert

Apply different effects:

Add Noise (with uniform and Gaussian distribution)

Blur (Gaussian blur and fast implementation)

Edge Detect (9 different filters)

Maximum Filter (also known as Erosion)

Median Filter

Minimum Filter (also know as Dilation)

Sharpen

Unsharp Mask

Waddle

Apply artistic effects:

Buttonize

Emboss

Glow

Mosaic

Page Curl

Shadow

Solarize

Spray

Texturize (neighbour images are connected seamlessly)

Display image statistics such as image histogram

Provides low level access to pixel data (allows you to create fast custom effects on image)

Powerful drawing features:

Support of two drawing engines:

GDI - provides high speed output

GDI+ - provides high quality output

Draw lines, curves (bezier splines), shapes (as rectangles, ellipses, polygons and more)

Ability to use various pens to outline shape (you can specify width, color, style)

Ability to use various brushes to fill shape (you can change color, specify whether brush hatched and so on)

Work with True Type, Type1 and OpenType fonts. Can retrieve font metrics (ascent, descent, em square and so on)

Ability to draw outlined text (for creating artistic captions and so on)

ActiveX Controls and Dialogs for VB

For those who build applications in VB, VC++, Delphi or other languages and environments supporting ActiveX, Aurigma has developed convenient controls and dialogs which will greatly improve your application:

Scrollable viewport control with the following key features:

Rubber-band selection and zooming

Auto zoom

High-quality zoom in/out display, supports scale-to-gray resize techinque for bitonal images

Displays semi-transparent images (with alpha-channel) correctly

Applies color management

Displays images at actual physical size (in device-independent units as inches). It is expecially important for images which have different horizontal and vertical resolution (for example fax images). Such images are displayed properly

Improved Open/Save dialogs:

Image preview. Memory-friendly thumbnail extracting technique is used

Displays basic information about image (such as width, size, and color depth)

Color selection dialog (in various color models)

Powerful demo application (all the source code is included) which can be used as the perfect starter kit. Includes dialogs for all the effects and many other features

Graphics Mill ActiveX Edition was discontinued in 2008, only Graphics Mill for .NET is available for sale.

If you require more information about Graphics Mill for .NET, please visit the page above or Contact Us for pricing and availability.

Evals & Downloads: Read the Graphics Mill help file

Operating System for Deployment: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: ActiveX OCX, ActiveX DLL

Built Using: ActiveX Template Library (ATL)

General: Internet Enhanced, Includes Digital Signature, Supports Apartment Model Threading, Supports Free Threading

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Delphi 7.0, Delphi 6.0

Product Class: User Interface Components

Keywords: graphics mill activex, aurigma graphicsmill

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