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Chant Developer Workbench supports Silverlight 5

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:09:00 GMT

Create Grammars using Chant Developer Workbench.

Chant Developer Workbench is comprised of essential tools and components for developing software that speaks and listens. As an interactive toolset, it provides a development and testing environment for working with the component libraries and the speech technology objects they manage. You can manage grammars, profiles, lexicons, recognizers, synthesizers and text-to-speech markup interactively within the application software you develop and deploy.

Updates in 2011 (Build 4.0.6.0)

Supports Silverlight 5 - Integrate speech technology with in-browser and out-of-browser 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

About Chant

Chant is a provider of software and services that help organizations gain competitive advantage using speech technology. They are focused on providing solutions that enable you to do more with your computer by talking with it. Chant was one of the first companies to provide engine-independent components for developing desktop, Web-enabled and telephony applications that use speech technology.

GdPicture.NET adds new Magnifier Tool

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:38:00 GMT

Annotations created with GdPicture.NET.

Improve the readability of PDFs and zoom in on images.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print image documents. Your programs will be able to display documents, acquire images from TWAIN scanners, perform image processing and optical character recognition (OCR). The product supports more than 90 vector and bitmap image formats including JPEG2000, JBIG, JBIG2, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and RAW.

Updates in 8.4

New magnifier tool has been added to the Viewer and can be used on PDFs and Images.
Improved Autodeskew engine.
Unicode support added when writing PDFs, with many font schemes supported such as Open type and Post Script.
Printing support added to the GdPicturePDF class.
Annotated documents created by the GdPicture/XMP Plugin can be saved into a stream.
New C# demo application for image processing with undo/redo features.
Improved toolkit stability, especially for the OCR and barcode recognition engines.

About GdPicture

GdPicture is a leading publisher of comprehensive document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can add several features to your application quickly and easily. Features include: OCR, image processing, PDF creation, image conversion, document displaying, document printing and image acquisition. GdPicture has thousands of customers all over the world including ECM market companies and software development firms. Every day they provide services and reliable support to programmers and architects to reduce time and cost of applications development. GdPicture is based in Toulouse, France.

GdPicture.NET improves QR barcode support

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:01:44 GMT

Annotations created with GdPicture.NET.

Version 8.3.6 can detect multiple QR-Code barcodes from black & white, gray scale, palletized and color images.

Updates in 8.3.6

Detects QR-Code in more than 90 different image formats, including PDF.
Detects multiple QR-Code barcodes from black & white, gray scale, palletized and color images.
Returns the string value of each QR-Code barcode recognized.
Returns the bounding box of each QR-Code barcode. -> top-left, top-right, bottom-left & bottom-right points.
Returns the confidence of each QR-Code barcode.
Returns the version of each QR-Code barcode.
Detects QR-Code barcode on a full page or on a region of interest.
Support for ECC error correction algorithm to recognize partially destroyed symbols.
Fast, accurate & easy to use.
Royalty-free licensing: no distribution license required for server or desktop.
Strong named and digitally signed library.
Working on any Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 2000 to Windows 7 !
Available in 32 bit & 64 bit version.
Can work in multi-thread applications (thread-safe).

About GdPicture

GdPicture is a leading editor of comprehensives document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can add several features to your applications quickly and easily like OCR, image processing, PDF creation, image conversion, document displaying, document printing, image acquisition and all other features covering all areas of document imaging technologies. GdPicture has thousands of customers all over the world including ECM market companies and software development firms. Every day they provide services and reliable support to programmers & architects to reduce time and cost of applications development. GdPicture is based in Toulouse, France.

Solutions Schedule for COM adds area notes

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:03:00 GMT

Displaying TimeBar appointments with Solutions Schedule for COM.

Version 11 includes a set of specific notes and images within the Gantt scheduling area.

Solutions Schedule for COM is a leading asset management and multi-resource scheduling component software for COM based IDE's. Solutions Schedule for COM includes built-in Gantt style drag-n-drop scheduling, Guide Line accuracy, TimeBar linking, conflict management, presentation styles like Silverlight and more. Solutions Schedule for COM includes royalty-free distribution, sample applications in Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro, compiled executables with direct double click access to the property inspector at run-time. Solutions Schedule for COM includes one year of technical support.

Updates in 11.0

Schedule Area Notes - set specific notes and representative note images within the Gantt scheduling area. Customize Note image, text presentation and location of the Note.
Tips on Schedule Area Notes - to present the text of the note to the user when the mouse hovers over a note.
Line Arrows - arrow images to denote that more time bars are out of the current view; in a previous view or in the next view forward.
Line Arrow Events - fire when a user clicks on an arrow allowing the developer to present and/or programmatically scroll to the next or previous time bar, or a time bar selected from a list, not visible in the schedule area within a schedule item. A great addition when wanting to indicate that there are other schedule commitments set in a schedule plan that are not in view. (similar to the more time bars functionality in Solutions Schedule for .NET)
Time Bar height definition - gets the height of the time bars in a schedule. Developers can cast a standard time bar height definition for an entire schedule plan.
Line height definition - gets the default line height of the resource list and schedule areas. Another tool in the scheduling toolbox for enhancing presentations of the Resource List and Gantt Schedule areas.
Time Bar Linking / Unlinking enhanced - a set of before linking events and enhanced unlinking methods have been added providing developers increased programmatic control when time bars are being linked or unlinked.

About DBI Technologies

Incorporated in 1996, DBI Technologies Inc. is a commercial software development company that is focused on empowering Windows application developers with the most flexible and respected commercial component products and services. DBI is recognized for its technical and pre-sales support for its customers working in any Microsoft development environment from Office to HTML. An industry leader in the implementation of component based application development, DBI provides creative solutions for its clients, incorporating leading edge Web technologies built on commercial component based architectures. DBI's Component::Solutions are incorporated in many Fortune 1000 business support systems, as well as commercial ERP and CRM solutions.

GdPicture.NET 8.2 improves OMR engine accuracy

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:10:00 GMT

Annotations created with GdPicture.NET.

1D Barcode reader engine accuracy is also increased and support for PDF Form Fields editing has been added.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web applications. With GdPicture.NET your programs will be able to display documents, acquire image from TWAIN scanners, make image processing, perform optical characters recognition and many other features covering all mainstream areas of document imaging. GdPicture.NET technology supports more than 90 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, JBIG2, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and RAW camera. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture PDF plugin, GdPicture XMP Annotation plugin, GdPicture JBIG2 Encoder plugin, GdPicture Forms Processing plugin, GdPicture OCR Tesseract Engine plugin, GdPicture 1D Barcode Reader plugin and GdPicture DataMatrix Recognition plugin are included free of charge in GdPicture.NET 8 Ultimate Edition. You can also buy GdPicture Plugins separately to extend the functionality of any other GdPicture.NET SDK.

Updates in 8.2

OMR engine accuracy increased
1D Barcode reader engine accuracy increased
Adobe PDF Annotation scheme support
PDF Form Fields editing support
New AnnotationManager class to handle GdPicture/XMP annotations by code
Improved Toolkit stability in extreme multithread context
Memory allocation and usage optimization of the Toolkit core
Improvement of the document imaging filters speed and accuracy (autodeskew, blank page detection...)
Support for Multiselect and Drag and Drop in the ThumbnailEx control
Bug fixes

About GdPicture

GdPicture is a leading editor of comprehensives document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can add several features to your applications quickly and easily like OCR, image processing, PDF creation, image conversion, document displaying, document printing, image acquisition and all other features covering all areas of document imaging technologies. GdPicture has thousands of customers all over the world including ECM market companies and software development firms. Every day we provide services and reliable support to programmers & architects to reduce time and cost of applications development. GdPicture is based in Toulouse, France.

Quick PDF Library 8.11 released

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:32:18 GMT

Creating a PDF using Quick PDF Library.

Adds support for AES-256 encryption, PDF417 barcodes and PDF/A-1b compliant output.

Quick PDF Library (formerly iSEDQuickPDF) is a royalty-free PDF developer SDK used in thousands of desktop and server applications for working with PDFs on all levels. Quick PDF Library's robust API includes over 500 functions, enabling you to create, render, print split, merge, encrypt, modify and manipulate PDF form fields. Quick PDF Library provides advanced support for JavaScript. Images can be added in BMP, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and EMF format with Quick PDF Library. Quick PDF Library (formerly iSEDQuickPDF) allows you to embed TrueType and Type1 fonts. With Quick PDF Library, TrueType fonts can be subsetted allowing Unicode text to be drawn. Quick PDF Library also includes a full built-in PDF rasterizer allowing PDFs to be rendered to the screen or printer. Adding advanced PDF functionality to your applications is simple with Quick PDF Library (formerly iSEDQuickPDF).

Updates in V8.11

PDF/A-1b compliant output
Support for AES-256 encryption
TrueType font subsetting
HTML5 renderer output
New plain text extraction with natural reading order
Support for PDF417 stacked linear barcode symbology
Changed API for full Unicode string support

About Debenu

Debenu is one of the world's leading document management and PDF software vendors and the company behind Quick PDF Library. Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Debenu has grown both organically and through acquisitions since it was founded in 2007 by Karl De Abrew, the founder and former CEO of Nitro PDF Software, and Rowan Hanna. Quick PDF Library is a key element of Debenu's Document Management suite which also includes Benubird Pro and Quick PDF Tools.

PDFlib 8.0.3 released

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:06:10 GMT

A PDF merge example in PDFlib.

Adds support for generating barcode fields, plus support for 3D models in PRC format.

PDFlib is a component that allows you to programmatically create PDF files from within your own server-side or client-side software. PDFlib doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDFs, nor does it require any other tools. It offers a variety of new and improved functions, including a new table formatter, PDF/A output for longtime archiving, AES encryption, integrated pCOS analyzing tools, a repair and optimization mode for input PDFs, and numerous other new features. PDFlib+PDI includes all PDFlib functions, plus the PDF Import Library (PDI) for including existing PDF pages in the generated output and PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) includes PDFlib+PDI, plus additional functions for automatically filling PDFlib blocks. PPS also includes the PDFlib Block plugin for creating blocks interactively. PDFlib is available for all major operating environments and development environments.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 8.0.3

Support for generating barcode fields (barcode fields don't work with Adobe Reader, but require Acrobat Professional)
Support for 3D models in the PRC format (in addition to U3D)
Adjust the size of imported PDF pages to work around problems with pages which contain content outside of all page boxes
The PDFlib Block plugin included with PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) has been updated to version 4.3. It includes a redesigned user interface and offers Acrobat X compatibility on Windows and Mac OS X. The Japanese user interface is now also supported on the Mac.

About PDFlib

Munich-based PDFlib GmbH, founded in 2000, develops and sells leading edge components for server-centric generation and processing of PDF documents. PDFlib customers use the software for automated and high volume generation and processing of PDF documents in business and prepress workflows or for online billing systems. The components produced by PDFlib GmbH are readily available for all common environments (operating systems and programming languages) as commercial versions and partially as open source. PDFlib GmbH sells worldwide with main markets in North America, Germany and Japan.

InstallShield 2012 Express adds new prerequisites

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:15:08 GMT

Using the Project Assistant in InstallShield Express.

Version 2012 features several new prerequisites that you can add to projects including: IE 9.0 and Office 2010 PIA.

InstallShield 2012 Express is easy to use and shields setup authors from installation complexities of building a setup. With InstallShield 2012 Express you can rapidly build, test and implement Windows and mobile device installations in record time without any training. InstallShield 2012 Express keeps setup authors up to date with support for the latest technologies and industry standards, including Windows 7, Windows Installer 5 (MSI 5), .NET support. InstallShield 2012 Express is a cost-effective solution that will fit into any budget, making it possible for everyone to create professional looking Windows or mobile device installations.

Updates in 2012

Support for New Technologies: InstallShield includes several new InstallShield prerequisites that you can add to Basic MSI, InstallScript, and InstallScript MSI projects: Internet Explorer 9.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client 10.50.1600.1, Windows Identity Foundation, Microsoft VSTO 2010 Runtime (x64), and Microsoft Office 2010 PIA
Predefined System Searches: InstallShield has new predefined system searches: Adobe Reader 10, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2003
New End-User Interface: An entirely new end-user interface and redesigned, modern built-in wizard pages give full control over installation customization.
Monitoring for COM Extraction: InstallShield 2012 supports a new monitoring method for COM extraction.The method uses a kernel driver to monitor the areas of the registry that are modified during dynamic COM extraction at build time and static COM extraction at design time. It combines the advantages that the earlier methods provided, allowing the DLL to read existing registries entries and preventing changes to the build machine.

About Flexera Software

Flexera Software, the maker of InstallShield, is fully dedicated to powering the business of software for our customers. For over 25 years, Flexera's solutions have helped software and hardware producers and their customers maximize revenue, cut costs, and eliminate manual processes. Flexera Software provides solutions that power the business of software. By simplifying the business relationship between software/hardware producers and their customers, Flexera solutions have a 25-year history of maximizing the value of the software that the world develops and uses.

Studio Controls for COM adds Zune Black style

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:23:20 GMT

Studio Controls provides a wide range of UI controls.

Version 1.2 also improves ctGrid Progress Bar, ctCalendar printed report functionality and ctList sub text formatting.

Studio Controls for COM includes royalty-free ActiveX controls for Outlook style scheduling to snap-in Windows application design, data entry and presentation including components for intuitive UI design. Integrating standards based component software in project development advances the time to market while offering application development a whole new set of features at a fraction of the cost.

Updates in V1.2

ctCalendar (v6.0)

BeforeWeekSummaryPaint event added to enable changing of the Week Summary text through the WeekSummaryText property
New Zune Black control style
A new vertical edge fill type has been added (VertEdge2) and
Enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)

ctDayView (v3.0.0.1)

Enhancement to the OnMouseWheel event enabling mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry
New Zune Black control style.
An AppointmentForeColor property has been added allowing greater custom style setting by the developers.
A new vertical edge fill type has been added (VertEdge2).
Enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)

ctGrid (v5.0)

Progress Bar - Column data types can now be set to a "Progress Bar" style. Progress Bars will take a value of 0-100. Properties available on the Progress Bars include: height, from color and to color, and fill type.
Hit test methods for ColumnAt and ItemAt (1 based) and the Pre-Column set to return a value of 0.
Enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)
A new vertical edge fill type has been added (VertEdge2)
Style properties have been enhanced for Windows 7 presentations including: HeaderOverFillType, HeaderOverBackColorTo, PreColumnFillType, and PreColumnBackColorTo
Header arrows now have an additional setting for 'solid'
Mouse Wheel enhancement - the OnMouseWheel event enables the mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry

ctList (v9.0)

Progress Bar - Column data types can now be set to a "Progress Bar" style. Progress Bars will take a value of 0-100. Properties available on the Progress Bars include: height, from color and to color, and fill type.
Sub Text formatting enhancement - a new SubTextBackColor property allows for Coloring of the background area of all the subtext areas. TheSubTextBackColor property is set to Clear by default
Hit test methods for ColumnAt and ItemAt (1 based) and the Pre-Column is set to return a value of 0.
Enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)
New SelectedBackColorTo, SelectedFillType, NoFocusBackColorTo and NoFocusBorderColor properties have been added replacing the FocusType property (backward compatibility has been maintained) to allow greater control over focus and item selected border coloring.
Added, Windows 7 fill styles for Rounded Borders. Selected items now use a 2 pass fill system that allows the fill and the border to have an enhanced 3D presentation.
Mouse Wheel enhancement - the OnMouseWheel event enables the mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry

ctTree (v10.0)

A new addition to ctTree includes Hit test methods for ColumnAt and ItemAt (1 based), and a Pre-Column set to return a value of 0.
Enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)
New SelectedBackColorTo, SelectedFillType, NoFocusBackColorTo and NoFocusBorderColor properties have been added replacing the FocusType property (backward compatibility has been maintained) to allow greater control over focus and item selected border coloring.
A new DrawFocus property has been added to enhance presentation of focus given to a selected node with a dotted focus line.
New sorting methods - FindFirstSelected and FindNextSelected methods have been added.
New Header styling properties - NodeHeaderBackColor, NodeHeaderBackColorTo, and NodeHeaderFillType properties are now available
Added, Windows 7 fill styles for Rounded Borders. Selected items now use a 2 pass fill system that allows the fill and the border to have an enhanced 3D presentation.
Mouse Wheel enhancement - the OnMouseWheel event enables the mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry

About DBI Technologies

PowerSNMP for ActiveX updated

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:00:58 GMT

Setting MIB values using PowerSNMP for ActiveX.

PowerSNMP for ActiveX is a collection of controls that enable management of network devices and applications, via SNMPv1 or SNMPv2 and the ASN.1 standard with the highest available standards compatibility and speed. Includes an Agent Control and a Manager Control - with a suite of supporting objects that include a Management Information Base (MIB) object for loading and parsing MIB files, an SNMP Message Object for encoding/decoding packets, an SNMP Table object and much more.

Updates in V2.9.0

Now functions on all Data Execution Protection (DEP) enabled systems.
Fixed problem getting DartStrings.All when the collection is empty.

About Dart Communications

Dart Communications was founded in 1994 for the specific purpose of creating quality components designed to support Internet communication development. Dart's development teams carefully design each component for ease-of-use and maximum range of effectiveness for both beginners and advanced developers alike. The results are tools that function in many development environments, such as .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C++, PowerBuilder, ASP, Delphi, C++ Builder and Microsoft Office. Companies such as Chase Manhattan Bank, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, America Online, Compaq Computer, American Express, and thousands of consultants and individual project teams rely on Dart's quality code, breadth of capability, and customer service. Designed in object-oriented methods, the tools easily make the change from ActiveX to .NET framework, allowing these users to transition the product as appropriate for their own environments.

LEADTOOLS Barcode Module adds Silverlight support

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:05:40 GMT

Recognising barcodes using LEADTOOLS 1D Barcode Module.

Version 17.5 also includes a new set of libraries for Windows Phone.

LEADTOOLS Barcode SDK technology seamlessly integrates the creation, detection and decoding of 1D and 2D barcode symbols with advanced LEADTOOLS Imaging SDK technology. LEADTOOLS is an advanced and comprehensive imaging SDK for reading and writing more than 100 different barcode types and sub-types with speed and accuracy. LEADTOOLS Barcode is available as .NET classes, Silverlight, Windows Phone, C DLL, C++ classes, WCF services and WF activities. Includes native 32-bit and 64-bit barcode binaries. LEADTOOLS 1D Barcode Module supports UPC/EAN, 2 of 5, GS1 DataBar, RSS-14, Code 128, USPS & 4-State, MSI (Modified Plessey), Codabar, Ames Code, USD-4, Code 2 of 7, Code 3 of 9, Patch Code, Code 93, Code 32 and Code 11 (USD-8).

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

A new set of libraries for Silverlight and Windows Phone. This addition makes it easier for developers creating web and mobile applications to implement barcode features which previously required the use of an external server via WCF Services.
Redesigned Barcode .NET interface. This high level and programmer friendly interface can read all barcodes in an image with a single function call. This intuitive new interface also handles the complexities of the extensive collection of barcode symbologies LEADTOOLS supports.

About LEAD Technologies

LEAD Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 1990 by Moe Daher and Rich Little. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, LEAD was established to commercialize Mr. Daher's inventions in the field of digital imaging and compression technology. Over the course of LEAD's more than 20 year life span, LEAD has become the established global leader in the digital imaging development tool sector, with a leading market position in all major countries throughout the world. LEAD is the developer and publisher of LEADTOOLS, the award winning development toolkit.

Detect, read and write Barcodes in Silverlight

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:04:49 GMT

Performing document cleanup with LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging V17.5 also dramatically increases barcode recognition speed by up to 9X.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging includes API, C++ Class Libraries and .NET Class Libraries for Win32 and x64 with features that include comprehensive annotations (Text, highlights, sticky notes, stamps, and more), specialized bitonal image display and processing such as scale-to-gray and favor-black. Also features performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, document image clean-up including hole-punch, line and staple removal and scanning with TWAIN or ISIS. Now includes JBIG2, ABIC, JPEG2000 and LEAD CMW.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Detect, read and write Barcodes in Silverlight and Windows Phone
New high-level Barcode design for .NET simplifies adding support for all barcode types in your application without any special knowledge of barcode symbologies
Dramatically increased barcode recognition speed by up to 9X
Automated cleanup for barcodes
PDF updates and improvements
- PDF runtime now requires only a single DLL for distribution
- Merge multiple PDF or Postscript files into a single PDF document
- Split a PDF into multiple documents
- Extract text with properties such as bounding rectangle, font information and color
- Extract hyperlinks, bookmarks and internal links
- Load and save PDF metadata such as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords and Producer
- New PDF Document Editor with extended support for adding, replacing, and deleting pages in any PDF file
- Enhanced PDF encryption support
- Convert Postscript files to PDF with full control over distiller, encryption and compatibility settings
- Convert existing PDF files to linearized PDFs(optimized for web viewing)
- Convert existing PDF files to PDF/A-1B
- Save fully customized UNICODE Bookmarks in PDF files
- Added support for multi-threaded PDF load
- Added support for writing PDF 1.3 and 1.6
- New PDF Info Extractor gets information about PDF version, image width, height, bit depth, compression and DPI
OCR Advantage Engine updates and improvements
- AutoZone has been improved to provide fewer, more accurate zones, improving OCR results
- Dramatically accelerated AutoZone detection, improving overall performance for OCR
- Faster Advanced Table Detection, providing better performance when dealing with documents containing tables
- New image pre-processing features to improve OCR results including fixing broken letters, dithered text, inverted text and more.
- Now supports the following languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese
- Added support for built-in Spellcheckingincluding NHunspell and Microsoft's System.Windows.Controls.SpellCheck engines
Enhancements to Existing File Formats
- Support for loading Office 2007 formats: DOCX, XLSX and PPTX
- Optimized load performance for DOC format
- Added ability to load Office formats from memory
- Added support for JBIG2 with non-sequential headers (i.e. random access)
- Support for loading refinement segments in JBIG2 format
Increased the speed of the Line Remove image processing function
New ImageColorType function for detecting whether the image is mostly black and white, grayscale or color.
Virtual Printer now supports network printing

About LEAD Technologies

LEADTOOLS Imaging V17.5 improves format support

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:04:00 GMT

Zooming an image using LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK.

Support for JPEG-LS, JPEG-XR ,JPM, VFF, CR2 - Canon, NEF & NRW - Nikon, DNG - Adobe, ORF - Olympus and more added.

LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK provides developers with the tools to create powerful imaging applications. LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro provides basic and advanced color imaging features for file format import/export, image compression, image display and effects, color conversion, image processing, TWAIN scanning, imaging common dialogs, database integration, printing and Internet with support for over 150 raster file formats and over 2000 effects.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

New File Formats
- JPEG-LS
- JPEG-XR
- JPM
- VFF
New Digital Camera Formats (DCF)
- CR2 - Canon
- NEF & NRW - Nikon
- DNG - Adobe
- ORF - Olympus
- ARW, SR2 & SRF - Sony
- RAW & RW2 - Panasonic
- RAF - Fujifilm
Enhancements to Existing File Formats
- Support for loading OS/2 BMP 16-bit
- Support for loading PNG 1+1
Support for ARGB4 color conversion

About LEAD Technologies

Localize your Medical Imaging applications

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:03:00 GMT

Viewing images using LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging V17.5 now fully supports customization and localization.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging includes hand-picked and optimized features to meet the specific needs of medical imaging application development, such as full DICOM dataset support, support for 8-16 bit grayscale, and 12 and 16 bit image processing and display with window leveling and LUT processing. DICOM 3, the industry standard medical imaging format/protocol is fully and completely supported, allowing programmers access to medical images retrieved from digital imaging modalities such as CT and MR scanners. LEAD's DICOM imaging support is one of the richest in the industry supporting 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 32 bit images including JPEG (8, 10 , 12, 16-bit Lossless grayscale, 8, 12-bit lossy grayscale, 24-bit lossless and lossy color), Run Length, Uncompressed, Photometric Interpretation (Monochrome1, Monochrome2, Palletized, RGB, ARGB, CMYK, YBR Full 422, YBR Full), and single and multi-page images. LEAD's Medical Imaging toolkit includes 8-16 bit grayscale display with window leveling. Window leveling is a linear conversion from stored pixel values to values to be displayed; LEADTOOLS can map the stored pixel values of interest using a user defined color map (using a LUT or Palette) or linear gray LUT.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Medical Workstation now fully supports customization and localization. Users can easily change the look and feel or language strings of the Medical Workstation for re-branding or localization purposes.
New DICOM Modality Worklist (MWL) WCF Service Component for the PACS Framework
Medical Image Viewer Features and Enhancements
- Added options for customizing the border of cells in the viewer
- Exposed more low-level annotation features
- Image Orientation tag automatically updates based on the current image orientation
- Added GetScale method, so user can get the current image scale value
- Added feature to allow the user to change the active sub-cell programmatically
- Added MatchScale method to allow users to make all the other cells match the scaling value of the specified cell
- Added Cobb Angle annotation tool
- Added user interface tools for Image Alpha(Sigmoid, Exponential and Logarithmic)
- Added VirtualImage property which allows the user to receive advanced details and status regarding the cell. This is useful for MPR, Derivative and Low Memory Usage cells.
- Empty cells with no assigned image can now be active, utilize tools and display text/tags
- Added Drag and Drop support for cells
- New image display and scaling options: UseDpi, FitIfLarger, Stretch, Explode
- New MPRType property to identify the axis for localization purposes
- Advanced synchronization tools including multiple series and viewer control instances
- Added GetPage method to allow user to get the desired frame from any cell type
3D Features and Enhancements
- Added support for Curved MPR/ Panoramic Polygon
- Added ability to generate and view Paraxial Cuts
- Added the ability to programmatically set the index of the MPR cell
- Added ImageLoaded event
DICOM Features and Enhancements
- New DLL dedicated to the internal DICOM tables, reducing deployment footprint
- Ability to load DICOM tables from XML, making customization simpler
- Get and Set encapsulated documents from memoryand disk
- Added support for YBR_FULL Photometric Interpretation with uncompressed and RLE-compressed DICOM image pixel data
- Added support for DICOM JPEG-LS Lossy and Lossless transfer syntaxes

About LEAD Technologies

LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK optimizes HD capture

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:02:34 GMT

Adding a compressor processor to a video with LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK.

Version 17.5 also adds HTTP Tunneling support, which allows users to stream data from RTSP cameras on another network.

LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK lets you capture, play, and edit multimedia files. As well as the latest DirectShow filters and multimedia file support you can load/convert to and from many multimedia formats (AVI, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, ISO (MP4, 3GPP, AAC, AVC1, MOV), XVID, ASF, WMV , WAV, WMA, OGG, etc). Get programmatic control over multimedia processors, compressors, video and audio inputs, types and sub-types; as well as increased camera control (brightness, contrast, zoom, etc); more flexible capturing options and much more.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Simplified redistribution of Multimedia .NET interface which does not require registration
Optimized Motion JPEG 2000 Codec to support multiple cores, making it up to 8x faster
Optimized HD Capture and channel selection
Push Windows Media Content to a Windows Media Server with new LEAD MMS Sink Filter (included with the Video Streaming Module)
New LEAD RLE Decoder for play or converting Quicktime and MP4 files using RLE compression
MPEG-2 Transport Multiplexer now supports UAV Datalink Minimum Metadata Set (MISB STD 0902.1)
Improved the speed of KLV data extraction from MPEG-2 Transport files
RTSP filter now supports HTTP Tunneling, which allows users to stream data from RTSP cameras on another network
RTSP Source now supports µ-Law and a-Law audio (Cisco WVC210v camera)
Added support for live and on-demand IIS Smooth Streaming
LEAD Windows Media Reader now supports playback of Windows Media Streams whose format changes during streaming
Embed metadata and scripts into Windows Media Stream
Combine multiple audio streams with the new LEAD Audio Mixer Filter
UDP Source now supports raw uncompressed streams conforming to RFC4175
New utility for enabling and disabling the use of Media Foundation modules in Windows Media Player
Added closed captioning support to the MPEG-2 Decoder
Convert closed captioning information to readable formats such as SubRip (SRT) or Text
Save the settings of the target format in the convert module
Fast and efficient creation of ISO/MP4 files with new Fast Save option
Extended maximum file size and time limit of ISO/MP4 files to over 4GB and 8 hours
Improved the performance of the Dynamic Frame Rate Controller

About LEAD Technologies

LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro improves performance

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:01:26 GMT

Defining vector properties using LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro SDK.

Version 17.5 optimizes load performance of PCL and CGM formats.

LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging SDK includes a low level API, and C++ Class library to add, edit, delete, rotate, translate, and scale objects. Group objects into layers. Change camera and lights. OpenGL, DirectX or GDI engines supported. Convert and save vector images to any of the over 150 raster file formats supported by LEAD.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Added support for loading PCL6
Optimized load performance of PCL and CGM formats
CGM view options now support Virtual Device Coordinates (VDC)
Added support for loading different DXF paper spaces
Added Geometric text support for DXF
Added CMYK RLE raster data support within PCL
Added support in DWF filter to load according to sheet dimensions

About LEAD Technologies

SocketTools improves IPv6 compatibility

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:09:00 GMT

Internet communications using SocketTools.

Version 7.1 also improves performance over high-speed Internet connections and local networks.

SocketTools gives you the ability to provide client interfaces for application protocols such as file transfer (FTP), simple mail transfer (SMTP), post office (POP), domain name (DNS), hypertext (HTTP), and Telnet. Include extensive Internet communication in your application without being required to learn complex TCP/IP protocols. SocketTools is available in the following editions:

Updates in V7.1

Some internal changes have been made that will generally improve performance over high-speed Internet connections and local networks.
Also improved is compatibility with IPv6. Some security and compatibility issues with older versions of Windows have been addressed, primarily Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, with the new networking code in version 7.
Updates to the documentation and examples.

About Catalyst Development Corporation

Catalyst Development Corporation was founded in 1995 to create and market components and applications for software developers. Today, Catalyst Development is a recognized leader in Internet component software whose award-winning products are used by thousands of corporate, government and independent developers around the world. With a talented staff of software developers, support technicians, marketing and business professionals, Catalyst remains focused on developing innovative products and dedicated to meeting the needs of clients.

dbiCalendarWPF 1.0 launched

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:45:36 GMT

Month, week and day views in dbiCalendarWPF.

Three full featured WPF scheduling controls wrapped into one.

dbiCalendarWPF provides appointment scheduling and calendar presentations for WPF application development. dbiCalendarWPF combines three direct edit controls; a Multi Column Day/Resource View, a Month Calendar View and a Week Calendar View, into one compact, feature rich, royalty free WPF control.

Features

Multi Column Day/Resource View
Month Calendar View
Week Calendar View

dbiCalendarWPF offers developers the right set of tools for managing appointments, contacts, locations, tasks and user/owner drawn columns with direct inline editing, built-in context menus, and full data integration including multi-level grouping and sorting.

Data Integration
dbiCalendarWPF has been designed for data flexibility giving developers the freedom to integrate and capture data as they need to. Connect to any data source from XML to Oracle to DB2 to whatever your data repository requirements are.

Many to Many relationships
dbiCalendarWPF expertly manages one-to-many and many-to-many relationships. It's not uncommon for one appointment, a conference call for instance, to appear in many locations, have many contacts and many tasks associated with that activity. dbiCalendarWPF is the right solution for managing and presenting multi - relational scheduling requirements. DBI component solutions have been used in the Healthcare field for fifteen years, and it's common for dental practice solutions for example to use DBI Scheduling components to help manage the multi - task aspects of appointment and resource scheduling.

Variable Time Intervals
Life doesn't happen in nice even 15, 30 or 60 minute intervals. Life happens around the clock in any combination and permutation of time. Onsite service personnel are scheduled when they're needed, Golf Course Tee Times are scheduled on 7 minute intervals and components of a dentist appointment may range from 2 minutes to 75 minutes. Being able to present WPF schedules in increments from 1 minute to 60 minutes and any combination in between is only natural.

Direct appointment creation and appointment editing
dbiCalendarWPF is designed to allow an appointment to be created directly upon selection of a time cell - just start typing. Also, an appointment can be modified directly upon selection. With the click of a Right mouse button modify the properties of an appointment directly through the built-in context menus, for: Date, Contact, Location, Task, View or a custom programmed menu option. dbiCalendarWPF does away with the need for an appointment dialogue with its built in Context Menus. An appointment dialogue is included should you need one. Enhance your User's Scheduling Experience with direct modification of appointment properties using the built-in context menus. Add / Edit appointments, Contacts, Locations and Tasks without ever seeing an edit dialogue.

About DBI Technologies

DBI Technologies Incorporated in 1996, DBI Technologies Inc. is a commercial software development company that is focused on empowering Windows application developers with the most flexible and respected commercial component products and services. DBI is recognized for its technical and pre-sales support for its customers working in any Microsoft development environment from Office to HTML. An industry leader in the implementation of component based application development, DBI provides creative solutions for its clients, incorporating leading edge web technologies built on commercial component based architectures. DBI's Component::Solutions are incorporated in many Fortune 1000 business support systems, as well as commercial ERP and CRM solutions.

GdPicture.NET V8 adds PDF annotation support

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:29:33 GMT

Annotations created with GdPicture.NET.

Edit existing PDFs, split & merge documents, swap pages, apply digital signatures, watermarks and barcodes.

Updates in Version 8

100% AnyCPU and thread-safe SDK
Full annotation support for PDF and images including sticky notes, free hand, rubber stamps, shapes and more...
Full managed PDF support (32 bit and 64 bit): Edit existing PDF, split & merge documents, swap pages, Edit pages, apply digital signature, encrypt, add watermarks and barcodes etc...
Improvement of the autodeskew, auto crop and automatic document orientation detection engines
Thread safe OCR engine that supports near 40 languages
Improvement of the Imaging core that also provides a subtract background filter

About GdPicture

GdPicture is a leading editor of comprehensive document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can quickly and easily add several features to your applications like OCR, image processing, PDF creation, image conversion, document displaying, document printing, image acquisition and all other features covering all areas of document imaging technologies. GdPicture has thousands of customers all over the world including ECM market companies and software development firms. Every day the company provides services and support to programmers and architects to reduce the time and cost of application development. GdPicture is based in Toulouse, France

Quick PDF Library updated

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:31:28 GMT

Creating a PDF using Quick PDF Library.

Quick PDF Library is a royalty-free PDF developer SDK used in thousands of desktop and server applications for working with PDFs on all levels. Quick PDF Library's robust API includes over 500 functions, enabling you to create, render, print split, merge, encrypt, modify and manipulate PDF form fields. Quick PDF Library provides advanced support for JavaScript. Images can be added in BMP, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and EMF format with Quick PDF Library. Quick PDF Library allows you to embed TrueType and Type1 fonts. With Quick PDF Library, TrueType fonts can be subsetted allowing Unicode text to be drawn. Quick PDF Library also includes a full built-in PDF rasterizer allowing PDFs to be rendered to the screen or printer. Adding advanced PDF functionality to your applications is simple with Quick PDF Library.

Updates in V7.25

Added support for CCITT images with /Indexed color space
Improvements to EMF import font scaling
Improved reading of CID font encoding
Documents with malformed trailers are now handled gracefully
Reduced memory consumption with CanvasDC functions
Added support for CCITT images with EncodedByteAlign encoding
Documents with malformed page tree nodes are now processed
Improvements to accuracy of text extraction
Image resolution can now be read from certain BMP images
Improved text alignment with certain CFF fonts
Added support for CCITT images with the EndOfLine flag
CMap parser now supports variable length codes
Memory reduction on image decoding
Metafile import now compresses images
RenderPageToDC and DARenderPageToDC now renderer directly to the device context
DARenderPageToDC now honours the values set using SetRenderDCOffset
Certain TIFF images are now added directly without needing decompression
More improvements to accuracy of text extraction
Image import now includes support for RGB palette LZW TIFF images
Image import now includes support for RGB palette Packbits TIFF images
Radio button options can now be deleted
Renderer output to EMF+ format now uses CreateCompatibleDC(0)
Changed co-ordinate order of GetAnnotQuadPoints and SetAnnotQuadPoints to match GetPageText
Added support for flate compressed images with /Indexed /DeviceN color space
GDI+ image smoothing now turned off by default when drawing images
Metafile import handles all WinAnsi Unicode characters without creating subsetted fonts

About Debenu

Convert to PDF patched

Tue, 31 May 2011 12:11:37 GMT

Converting files usnig Convert to PDF.

Convert to PDF is an economical solution for creating high-quality PDF documents that are 100% Adobe compatible. Designed to work with any Windows program that can print, it gives you a virtually unlimited number of programs that can be used to create PDF documents. If you can print it, then Convert to PDF can create a PDF for you. The user-oriented interface makes customizing the PDF a breeze. Easily-accessed options for security, document information, watermarking, and others, give you total control over your PDF creation. You can even change options and re-create the PDF without having to print your document again. When you need consistency in the type of PDF you create, use Convert to PDF's One-Click capabilities to streamline the creation process, you'll be creating PDF files in seconds.

Updates in 2.0.002

Corrected a colour inversion issue with some fill styles
Resolved issue where some Visio files were failing to convert to PDF format causing application to terminate
Simulated bold and/or italic fonts now displayed bold and/or italic in generated PDF document
Resolved text reversal for rotated text in Microsoft Publisher documents when converted to PDF document

About PEERNET

PEERNET has been leading the way in graphic and digital imaging software for over 8 years. PEERNET products create solutions that range from simple display, printing, and conversion tools, to powerful high-end server-based products that leverage the web to streamline enterprise workflow. Their products allow you to convert any document from any application into a variety of graphic file formats such as Adobe PDF, and high quality digital image files like JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.

InstallAnywhere 2011 expands platform support

Wed, 18 May 2011 10:39:04 GMT

Building an installer using InstallAnywhere.

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), SUSE Linux 11.3 and Ubuntu 9.10 now supported.

InstallAnywhere is designed to install any kind of software -- desktop, enterprise, or multi-tiered Web services - onto any platform, and to configure those applications for optimal performance. Whether you're creating applications written in Java, C++, PERL, or C#, or deploying EJBs or .NET Web services, all of the installation details are handled automatically. InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition simplifies complex installations and provides maximum developer customization, along with extensive user interaction, client/server features and localization for 31 languages (Enterprise Edition). InstallAnywhere is available in the following editions:

Updates in 2011

Enterprise and Standard Edition

Expanded Platform Support - InstallAnywhere 2011 supports the latest and most updated platforms including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), SUSE Linux 11.3, Ubuntu 9.10, Solaris 11, HP-UX 11i, AIX 7.1, IBM i5/OS, Z/OS, RHEL 6 and Fedora 14.
Enhanced Support for Third-Party Compression Algorithms - InstallAnywhere 2011 allows set up authors to expand 7-Zip (LZMA) and TAR compressed archives on their target system offering the ability to expand these archives in a fast and reliable manner.
Complex Rule Expressions with Multiple Operators - InstallAnywhere 2011 provides the ability to write complex rule expressions (and/or/not) with the application logic. These complex rule expressions help set up authors to better mirror their complex business logic.
Signed Installations - Installers now have the ability to have custom code archives or their dependencies as signed JARS. InstallAnywhere will extract files and make use of Java to verify the signature, ensuring the safety of these custom code JARS.
IDE Enhancements - InstallAnywhere 2011 provides a list of preset variables that can eliminate manual entry and a table that allows quick viewing of all variables in a project. In addition, there is now a variable search and replace function that can be utilized in any of the installation tasks / phases to enable rapid changes.

Enterprise Edition Only

Enhanced Merge Modules Features - InstallAnywhere 2011 Enterprise provides a single uninstaller that will work with your main project as well as any other merge modules. This new capability reduces potential uninstall errors and saves time for the set up author. A unified progress bar has been developed to show installation progress for all included components.
Extended External Resource Bundle Support - External Resource Bundle support enables the localization of installer strings. Merge modules can now leverage the external resource bundles from the parent as well.
Enhanced Installation Logging - Merge modules now have installation logs in addition to the parent log files. Developers also have the ability to consolidate the parent and merge module log files. All logging related settings have been consolidated into a single log settings task.
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Enhancements - InstallAnywhere 2011 Enterprise supports the latest versions of JVM for Sun, IBM, Apple and HP (ver 1.4x, 1.5x and 1.6x), with advanced search enhancements for the developer to put in their installer.
JVM Download at Runtime - InstallAnywhere 2011 Enterprise provides the option to download a JVM from the Internet in real time if the JVM is not found on the end user machine. This capability not only saves time, but provides a smaller footprint for the installer package.

About Flexera Software

Flexera Software is a leading provider of strategic solutions for Application Usage Management; solutions delivering continuous compliance, optimized usage and maximized value to application producers and their customers. Flexera Software is trusted by more than 80,000 customers that depend on their comprehensive solutions—from installation and licensing, entitlement and compliance management to application readiness and enterprise license optimization—to strategically manage application usage and achieve breakthrough results realized only through the systems-level approach they provide.

Convert-to-PDF can now run in a Windows Service

Wed, 04 May 2011 18:14:00 GMT

Converting files to PDF using Convert to PDF.

Version 2.0 makes it possible to use Convert-to-PDF to programmically automate PDF document creation.

Updates in 2.0

Convert to PDF 2.0 has been enhanced to support running a command after a PDF document is created, as well as, being enabled to run in a Windows Service or ASP.NET environment.. These two (2) major enhancements makes it truly possible to use Convert to PDF to programmically automate PDF document creation, as well as, allow for the integration of PDF doucument creation with existing or new business processes or workflows.

Enhanced support for:

Windows 7 (SP1)
Windows 2008 R2 (SP1)
Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft Office 2010

About PEERNET

PEERNET have lead the way in graphic and digital imaging software for over 8 years. PEERNET products create solutions that range from simple display, printing, and conversion tools, to powerful high-end server-based products that leverage the web to streamline enterprise workflow. The products allow you to convert any document from any application into a variety of graphic file formats such as Adobe PDF, and high quality digital image files like JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.

Quick PDF Library V7.24 released

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:25:00 GMT

A sample PDF created in C# with Quick PDF Library.

Now includes support for GS1-128 (EAN-128) barcodes and faster direct access page searching for very large documents.

Updates in V7.24

DataMatrix 2D barcodes can be rotated
Support for GS1-128 (EAN-128) barcodes
Support for DeviceN color spaces
Faster direct access page searching for very large documents
DrawDataMatrixSymbol allows the fill color to be set
Memory optimizations for ICC based images
Get/set embedded file description
CFF font data in OpenType fonts enabled for non-embedded fonts
More options for getting/setting choice form field flags
Added an option to retrieve an annotation's border width
Added support for B/W LZW images
SetCustomInformation now allows empty values

About Debenu

Debenu is a leading document management and PDF software vendor, and the company behind Quick PDF Library. Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Debenu has grown both organically and through acquisitions since it was founded in 2007 by Karl De Abrew, the founder and former CEO of Nitro PDF Software, and Rowan Hanna. Quick PDF Library is a key element of Debenu's Document Management suite which also includes Benubird Pro and Quick PDF Tools.

GdPicture.NET adds OMR

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:22:00 GMT

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN source with GdPicture.NET.

GdPicture.NET V7.4 features Optical Mark Recognition, Template Recognition, plus improved performance and TIFF support.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web applications. With GdPicture.NET your programs will be able to display documents, acquire image from TWAIN scanners, make image processing, perform optical characters recognition and many other features covering all mainstream areas of document imaging. GdPicture.NET technology supports more than 45 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture Tesseract OCR Plugin, GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition, GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition and GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin are included free of charge in GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Ultimate Edition, you can also buy GdPicture Plugins separately to extend the functionality of any other GdPicture.NET SDK.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V7.4

Optical Mark Recognition (Included in GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Ultimate and also available with the GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin)
Template Recognition (Included in GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Ultimate and also available with the GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin)
Better TIFF support
Bug fixes & performance improvements.