This product is end-of-sales since February 1st 2012. We suggest migrating to GdPicture.NET which includes and ActiveX version with all the features of this toolkit.

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GdImageBox Pro ActiveX

Image Viewer for PSD, JP2, HDR, etc.

SDK Overview


GdImageBox Pro ActiveX is a royalty-free Image Viewer ActiveX control for developers who need to support popular graphic image formats like tiff, gif, jpeg, png, wmf, bmp, wbmp, pcx, pnm, pfm, j2k, jp2, hdr, jbig, psd, tga, jng, exr, dds, ppm, sgi, pbm, pgm, xbm, xpm, koala and iff. Using GdImageBox Pro ActiveX, you can view, zoom and rotate, define a display area, zoom in on an area, play animated gifs, display multi-page tiff files, define your own zoom in or zoom out values, use the keyboard to scroll down and across images, and set an anti-aliasing & smoothing display mode.
GdImageBox Pro ActiveX can be used within any Windows development environment that supports ActiveX components, like Visual C++, VB6, Visual Foxpro, Delphi, Visual Studio .NET, VB.NET, C#, MS Access and WinDev.
This edition includes an Image viewer container class: GdImageBoxCnt. This is similar to a vb picturebox in that it can contain other controls placed within it.


  • Unicode Support
  • Easy-to-use image viewer control
  • Display single page & multi-page images
  • Retrieve image Metadata including: EXIF, GPS, Thumbnail and IPTC tags
  • Support for large image files
  • Multiple color space management: HSL, CMY, CMYK, RGB, ARGB, sRGB64, ICM, ICM2
  • Load images from IStream or IUnknown binary data
  • Display images from URLs using the HTTP protocol
  • Display images from FTP servers
  • A choice of display quality modes including Bilinear, Bicubic, Bilinear HQ, Bicubic HQ and Automatic Quality Mode
  • Support for 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 48-bit and 64-bit color depth
  • Display images from Clipboard data
  • Display images from StdPicture image objects
  • Display images from IPicture image objects
  • Display images from HBitmap handles
  • Display images from Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) data
  • Display images from GDI+ image handles
  • Advanced rotation options including 90°, 180°, 270°, flip X and Y-axes
  • User can define a custom display area
  • Loop animated Gifs
  • Advanced scrollbar and autosize features
  • Aspect ratio control for images with different vertical and horizontal resolution (for example, fax with 200 x 100 dpi)
  • Built-in tools including hand , pan and zoom and rectangle selection
  • Pan across and scroll down images using the mouse
  • Multiple zoom modes: zoom by height, zoom by width, fit to control
  • User-defined zoom and user-defined area zoom
  • Keyboard and mouse events
  • Change image zoom or position using the mouse wheel
  • Smooth Scrolling
  • Save and restore a specific position within an image
  • GdImageBoxCnt: Image viewer container class. This is like a vb picturebox in that it can contain other controls placed in it.


Please click here to view the complete list of supported file formats.



Microsoft Windows (32-bit or 64-bit): 98 / NT4 / ME / 2000 / XP / 2003 / VISTA / WINDOWS 7



GdImageBox Pro ActiveX

2.9.18 (21 February 2011)


License Price/License (USD)
1 Developer 299.00
2 Developers 382.72 package
3 Developers 574.08 package
4 Developers 765.44 package
5 Developers 956.80 package
Site 1196.00 site
Select your license type and total cost:



All licenses include royalty-free distribution with your application or system.
License price is the same for server- or desktop- deployment, we do not charge extra fee for server deployment.
Software license key will continue to be valid for all future 2.X versions of GdImageBox Pro ActiveX with free upgrades.


ActiveX licensing


Per developer licenses: This license type entitles the specified number of developer (1,2,3,4,5) within a single organization to write software with access to GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK.

Site license: This license entitles an unlimited number of developers in a single organization, at a single physical address, to write software with access to GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK.