ImageMan ActiveX Suite

What's new in ImageMan ActiveX Suite V8.72? - This is a maintenance release that fixes the following issues:

• Tif DIL round up error on resolution
• IncreaseTo method changes X & Y resolution of image
• Cant write multi-page PDFs to memory using ImgxWriteMem*
• Exception when loading images larger than memory
• Licensing change to eliminate calls to display trial dialog from IsLicenseValid
• Check for license file in the Common Files\DTI\Licenses directory
• MousePointer property now updates cursor when its set

What's new in ImageMan ActiveX Suite V8.71? - This is a maintenance release that fixes the following issues:

• Memory Access Exception can occur when calling ImgReduceColors with OCTREE palette
• ImgCopy fails with single row images
• Increased Read Buffer size in EPS DIL to speed up image loading
• PNG DIL cant read some files written by older PNG DEL
• ImgMergeImage doesn't handle inverted 1 bit images.

What's new in ImageMan ActiveX Suite V8?

• Support for using the Image control in ASP and ASP.NET server side applications
• Support for creating the Image control as an automation object in addition to a Visual control
• Support for 16 & 32 bit images including full transparency support
• Support for reading/writing JPEG2000 compressed images
• Alpha channel support
• Image Merge method with full transparency support
• Deskew for correcting scanned images
• Screen capture support
• Support for reading and writing standard and custom TIFF tags
• Support for getting opened image data including compression type, image format and other image specific data
• GetRow/SetRow methods allow easy access to image data via arrays
• The Image and Twain controls have been rewritten using ATl for enhanced speed and also smaller size. MFC DLLs are no longer required
• Crop method

The ImageMan API provides a compact yet powerful set of properties, methods and events. While the ImageMan high level functions make it easy to create 'image enabled' applications in minutes, the low level functions give you total control over image processing. ImageMan's modular architecture also allows you to ship only the import/export filters that you need with your application, allowing you to save disk space. Also, you can create your own import/export filters for proprietary formats.

ImageMan Features Include:

• New and Improved image format support. Now supports reading Kodak Flashpix images and support has been added for Interlaced, Multipage, and animated GIF files
• Support for Adobe PhotoShop Plug-In Filters in the new Plugins ActiveX control. Now your users have can access to thousands of cool image filters designed for PhotoShop
• Data Binding Support for Visual Basic makes creating Image Enabled Database apps a snap
• Enhanced Image Display support including new Octree Color reduction and faster dithering
• Interpolated scaling for the ultimate in image quality when scaling images
• Images can now be rotated in hundredth of degree increments
• Built-in filters including Emboss, Sharpen, Blue, Edge Detection and more plus the ability to specify your own filter kernels
• 50+ Special Transitional effects with complete control over speed, granularity and more in the lightweight Special Effects control
• Enhanced File Save dialog allows users to specify the image save options
• Enhanced Image Open dialog with configurable thumbnail preview and image information
• Support for reading and writing CMYK color TIFF files
• New Image Contrast adjustment support
• Improved AntiAliasing support for 1 bit image display
• Support for 35+ raster and vector formats
• Includes support for FlashPix, Photo CD, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, RLE, DIB, EPS, GIF, PNG, TGA, IMG, DXF, PCX, DCX

ImageMan Finely Crafted API

• Not only is Imageman easier to use but it's much smaller. In fact ImageMan is less than half the size of some competing libraries

Royalty Free

• Unlike other toolkits that require royalties for their advanced versions, you can distribute your ImageMan applications royalty free

ImageMan Adobe PhotoShop Plugin Support

• ImageMan allows you to add support for hosting thousands of Adobe Photoshop plugins. Visit the PlugIn Effects Gallery for sample effects and links to other filter resources

ImageMan Sophisticated Image Processing

• Image Filters like embossing, edge detection, blur, sharpen, and more. Adjust Brightness, Contrast and Gamma. Interpolated Scaling for the best image quality. Rotate images by hundredths of degrees. Mirror, flip and invert. Automatic Thumbail generation

ImageMan Color Image Support

• ImageMan includes several features that make it ideal for Color image processing and display. The new Interpolated scaling support assures you the best image quality when scaling images up or down and it's fast. The new Color reduction algorithms allow you to reduce the number of colors in an image with excellent image quality. While you're reducing your image you can also specify one of several supported dithering methods be used to further improve the image quality. Images can be reduced to an optimized palette or a fixed palette for displaying multiple images on a palettized system, Images can even be reduced/dithered to a user specified palette
• Document Processing Support AntiAliasing support make displaying scaled high quality black and white images a snap. Automatic thumbnail generation is just a function call away. Support for reading and writing multi page tiff/DCX files including support for Group compression assures compatibility with document management standards

ImageMan Scanning

• ImageMan includes support for TWAIN compatible scanners, frame grabbers and digital cameras. It only takes a few lines of code to acquire an image from any supported device and ImageMan also has lower level functions that allow you to scan from an Automatic Document Feeder(ADF) and control image attributes such as resolution, color depth, scan area and more. Includes support for 32 bit TWAIN Sources

ImageMan Printing

• ImageMan's printing support gives you complete control over the printing process. You can mix graphics and text on any Windows supported printers

ImageMan Database Support

• ImageMan's API includes functions for writing and reading image data from memory blocks making it ideal for use with databases. Functions are also included to read image data embedded in other file and with our low level functions you can even write your own low level I/O handlers

ImageMan Compression - 50+ Special Transitional effects with complete control over speed, granularity and more in our new lightweight Special Effects control supports the most common compression schemes including:

• Packbits
• Group 3
• Group 4
• Modified Huffman
• JPEG
• RLE
• LZW

ImageMan Special Effects

• ImageMan includes over 50 special image transitional effects for creating cool multimedia applications