What's New in ImageGear Professional

ImageGear Professional v18.2

ImageGear Professional v18.2 DLL for Windows introduces the following new features:

Deflate Compression and Decompression Optimization

Improved speed of deflate compression and decompression for PNG, TIF, PSD, and PSB formats.

Recognition Enhancements

Improved stability of the Recognition support.

ImageGear Professional v18.1

ImageGear Professional v18.1 introduces support for Linux platforms. Please refer to ImageGear Professional v18.1 for Unix documentation for more details.

ImageGear Professional v18.0

ImageGear Professional v18.0 DLL for Windows introduced the following new features:

Large Image Support

Enhanced support for loading, saving, displaying, and processing gigabyte-sized images. ImageGear can now process gigabyte-sized images without overloading system resources.

In the 32-bit version, the maximum image size is limited to 2 GB.
In the 64-bit version, the maximum image size is only limited by the available disk space, and can exceed the size of the installed RAM and paging file.

See Working with Gigabyte-Sized Images for more information.

Recognition Features

Added OCR support to the 64-bit DLL toolkit.
Improved OCR support in the 32-bit DLL toolkit.

See ImageGear Recognition Component, Optical Character Recognition, and Recognition Component API Reference for more information.

Unicode Support

Added support for loading and saving image files that use Unicode symbols in file names.
Added support for updating metadata in TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPX image files that use Unicode symbols in file names.
Added support for loading, displaying, and saving Unicode text strings in vector image files for SVG, DWG, DXF, and DWF formats.

See Unicode Support and Text for more information.

Raster Image Enhancements

Added read/write support for UUID and XMP metadata in JPEG 2000 and JPX images.
Added support for saving ICC profiles to Adobe PSD and Adobe PSB file formats.

Vector Improvements

For SVG vector format, added support for loading, displaying, and saving text strings that use fonts embedded in SVG files.
Provided comprehensive Vector documentation. See Vector Format Features Supported by ImageGear Professional.

XPS Improvements

Improved the XPS file format support for better speed and better integration with ImageGear Core.

PDF Improvements

Updated PDF and PS libraries to support new PDF and PS files.

Annotation Enhancements

Improved Annotation Burn In operation on images that contain Alpha channels for both the legacy (ART) and new (ArtX) annotation APIs.

New Samples

Added Visual Studio 2010 projects to sample applications.