What’s new in GdPicture.NET 9?
Here is a selection of the new features and functionalities. The full description of GdPicture.NET 9 is available on the GdPicture website http://www.gdpicture.com/
Toolkit Core
- Binaries for NET Framework 4.5.
- Memory usage optimization and speed enhancement.
- Better error handling.
- User controls appearance customization improved.
- Multithreading handling improvement especially with the ThumbnailEx control.
- Better stream handling.
- Temporary files creation avoided while loading from stream, array of bytes or string data (especially for usage in cloud or in sand-box).
- Several Unicode issues fixed.
- OCR & PDF support for RTL languages such as Arabic improved.
Annotations
- Memory usage optimization and speed enhancement.
- Synchronisation with other GdPciture Objects (ThumbnailEx, AnnotationEditor, BookmarkTree...)
- Support for loading and saving annotations of all pages of a document from/to a single XML block.
- Ruler annotation added.
- PDF rasterizer produces any Pixel format bitmap.
- Support for linearized PDF creation (fast web view mode).
- PDF Transparency support for rendering.
- PDF rendering speed increased by 15-30% with lower memory usage.
- PDF formfield and annotation flattening quality increased.
- PDF support for alpha channel when adding 32-bit ARGB bitmap (soft mask).
- PDF Document Viewing preference support.
- Full files attachment support (embedded file stream).
- Full PDF transparency support (blend modes).
- Graphics state stack and transformation matrix support.
- Digital signature validation with certificate and document content checking as well as digital certificate support with stamp.
- Page duplication and drawing support.
- Bookmark reading and writing support.
- Adding pages directly from another PDF.
Document imaging
- Speed improvement of the document imaging filters (autodeskew, despeckle...)
- New 8bpp and 4bpp quantizer with very high quality, high speed and low memory usage.
- GIF encoder enhancement to produce better quality image with a dramatically increased speed.
- Faster image resizer on indexed bitmaps.
- Memory usage drastically decreased for document filters.
- Better support for large tiff files (IE 4GB multipage tiff documents).
- Dramatic speed increase in handling editable multipage tiff & gif.
- Multipage documents opened in read and write mode by default (as fast as the previous read-only mode).
- New blob, noise and sophisticated line removal filters.
Barcoding
- Detection of barcode type specification during 1D barcode recognition process.
- Option to return undecodable barcode.
- Added option to specify the number of expected recognized barcode for 1D, Datamatrix , QRCode and PDF417 reader.
- Speed and accuracy of the 1D, QR-Code and DataMatrix barcode readers increased.
- Memory usage decreased.
- New PDF417 Barcode Reader Plugin.
The full list of the new methods and properties of the GdPicture.NET interface is available on our website at http://www.gdpicture.com/
All our GdPicture licenses come with a 6 month upgrade protection (see our policies at http://www.gdpicture.com/
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