What's New in ImageGear

ImageGear Professional v18.2 for Windows ActiveX

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

Deflate Compression and Decompression Optimization

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

Documentation Enhancements

Re-branded product documentation with improved navigation.

ImageGear Professional v18 for Windows ActiveX

ImageGear Professional v18 for Windows ActiveX introduces the following new features:

Large Image Support

Enhanced support for loading, saving, displaying, and processing gigabyte-sized images. ImageGear can now process images of up to 2 GB without overloading system resources.

Unicode Support

Added support for loading, displaying, and saving Unicode text strings in vector image files, for , DWG, DXF and DWF formats.

Raster Image Enhancements

Added read/write support for UUID and XMP metadata in JPEG 2000 and JPX images.
Improved the loading speed of compressed image files by 20-40%.

Vector Improvements

For SVG vector format, added support for loading, displaying and saving text strings which use fonts embedded in SVG files.

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 which contain Alpha channels for both the legacy (ART) and new (ArtX) annotation APIs.