Upgrading from ThumbnailXpress 5 to ThumbnailXpress 6

This section describes how to upgrade from ThumbnailXpress 5 to ThumbnailXpress 6. While generally you'll be able to replace ThumbnailXpress 5 with ThumbnailXpress 6, there are a few important changes you may need to consider. This section provides information about those changes.

Library Name, GUID, and ProgID

The library name has changed from AccusoftThumbnailXpress5 to AccusoftThumbnailXpress6.
The GUID for the ThumbnailXpress ActiveX control has changed in ThumbnailXpress 5 from {570287AD-F463-43C9-B455-B8010A589DCB} to the new value in ThumbnailXpress 6 of {68BA0286-08E7-4DC1-9B8C-7B92BA2704DB}.
The ProgID has changed from ‘Accusoft.ThumbnailXpress.5’ to ‘Accusoft.ThumbnailXpress.6’.

New or Modified API

ThumbnailXpress 6 Service Pack 1 introduces the following API modification:

PDF support is deprecated in ImagXpress, please use PDF Xpress instead for PDF support for thumbnailing via the UsePdfXpressForPDFsOnly property.

If you encounter any porting issues, please contact support@accusoft.com for assistance.