New Features - ImageGear for .NET v20.3

ImageGear for .NET v20.3 provides the following new features. For detailed information about these and other ImageGear features, please refer to the ImageGear for .NET Help.

ASP.NET/HTML5 Functionality Updates

• Added support for importing NotateXpress annotations

ART Enhancements

• New API for text overflow checking

• New Undo and Redo API

PageView Improvements

• New scrolling API

New Features - ImageGear for .NET v20.2

ImageGear for .NET v20.2 provides the following new features. For detailed information about these and other ImageGear features, please refer to the ImageGear for .NET Help.

PDF Improvements

• Enhanced PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b Verifier.

• Enabled Recognition to PDF/A output.

Recognition Enhancements

• New Recognition Letter API.

• Extended output manager to save recognition output to stream as well as to file.

• Improved Recognize to PDF functionality to better and more consistently handle character, word and paragraph spacing.

• The default quality of JPEG compressed images created by the Recognition assembly for PDF output has been reduced slightly. Generally, the decrease in quality is not noticeable. However, it can now be adjusted easily using the JPEG format filter in ImageGear.

ASP.NET/HTML5 Functionality Updates

• Added support for Camera Raw images.

• Added support for Excel documents.

• Client side error reporting.

ASP.NET Web Configuration Tool

• Enhanced settings to enable/disable DICOM, JPEG 2000, Camera Raw and Microsoft Office formats.

Raster Format Enhancements

• Edit embedded JPEG 2000 metadata without introducing image quality loss.

• Edit embedded Adobe PSD and PSB metadata without introducing image quality loss.

• Extended handling of the TIFF NewSubfileType to provide the option to treat thumbnail pages as true pages.

Microsoft Office Support

• Rendering of Microsoft Office PowerPoint files has been improved to support custom shapes geometry, graphic frames (tables) and gradient color.

ART Enhancements

• Support for coordinate-changing rotation and flipping of ART annotations.

• New API for exposing ruler annotation values and setting units of measure.

• Enhanced API for getting annotations bounding box.

• Enhanced WinForms annotator's performance for moving and resizing annotations.

Clipboard API

• Copy and Paste functionality for raster images.

Improved Direct3D Performance

• Render vector files more than 4 times faster. Some minor differences may be visible in vector rendering and rasterization due to this improvement.

New Rasterization Method

• New rasterization method to convert SVG files to 32-bit RGBA raster files.

DICOM Updates

• Updated ImageGear DICOM format metadata support to the latest DICOM 2011 standard (see tables below).

• Support DICOM file formats with JPEG fragments.

DICOM 2011 Metadata Update

The UIDs of the following SOP classes have been changed in DICOM 2011 standard, the same changes have been reflected in the ImageGear .NET 20.2 DICOM Dictionary API:

The following new SOP classes corresponding to the old values were added:

The IDs of the following DICOM tags have been changed in DICOM 2011 standard, the same changes have been reflected in the ImageGear .NET 20.2 DICOM Dictionary API:

The following new DICOM tags corresponding to the old values were added:

Value Representation (VR) is a very critical parameter – it determines how the Tag should be decoded in case of implicit Transfer Syntax. Any mismatch of VR with the Standard can lead to impossibility to read entire Data Set (and of course, as a consequence – impossibility to load the image from pixel data). This parameter should always be synchronized with the Standard.

The DICOM 2011 Standard changed Value Representation of the following Tag:

Value Multiplicity (VM) determines how many values can be present in the Tag data. Value of 1 means, there can only be one value. Other values specify an array. Similar to Value Representation, VM is critical parameter that should be synchronized with the Standard.

The DICOM 2011 Standard changed Value Multiplicity of the following Tags:

New Features - ImageGear for .NET v20.0

ImageGear for .NET v20.0 provides the following new features. For detailed information about these and other ImageGear features, please refer to the ImageGear for .NET Help.

Microsoft Office Support

• Rendering of Microsoft Office Open XML Word files has been improved.

• ImageGear for .NET now has the ability to load and display Microsoft Office Excel files.

• ImageGear for .NET now has the ability to load and display Microsoft Office PowerPoint files.

ASP.NET/HTML5 Functionality Updates

• ASP.NET can now use multiple image providers.

• Upload Service allows Images to be stored on the server.

• JavaScript controls reworked to improve ease of use in MVC.

• JavaScript controls made available as jQuery plugins.

PDF Improvements

• Update to PDF and PS libraries to support new PDF and PS files.

• Create image only PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b files.

File Format Updates

• Speed enhanced JPEG 2000 format support.

• Read and Write Support for SVG files (used in HTML5 web applications).

• Support for loading of Headerless RAW data files for smaller files sizes.

• Extended the Save Options to simplify conversion between raster and vector formats.

Native HDIB Interface

• HDIB interface simplifies the interaction of ImageGear for .NET and the Accusoft Xpress line of products.

DICOM Multi-Planar Reconstruction (MPR)

• ImageGear for .NET now has the ability to perform Multi-planar reconstruction.

• Display Components allow for Axial, Coronal, Sagittal and Oblique views to be displayed and manipulated.

Metadata Handling

• Read and update Metadata without decoding or recompressing image data.

• Expanded support for XMP Metadata (JPEG 2000, GIF and PNG).

Annotation Improvements

• ImageGear for .NET can now supports the display and conversion of NotateXpress XML Annotation data.

• Annotation security control extended to enable more granular access control settings.

• Legacy mark appearance mode improves display of Legacy Annotations.

Documentation

The ImageGear for .NET documentation provides information for all platforms and .NET framework versions. However, not all features are available for all ImageGear for .NET versions. Please refer to the table on the Welcome page of these Release Notes for information about which ImageGear for .NET Namespaces are available for which versions (Windows 32-bit platforms and Windows 64-bit platforms).

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