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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GdViewer Pro ActiveX - Document Viewer for developers

SDK Overview


GdViewer Pro ActiveX is a royalty-free Image Viewer ActiveX and PDF Viewer ActiveX control that supports a wide range of image formats such as tiff, gif, jpeg 2000, jpeg, jbig, png, wmf, bmp, wbmp, pdf, pdf/a, pcx, pnm, hdr, psd, tga, jng, exr, dds, ppm, pfm, sgi, pbm, pgm, xbm, xpm, koala and iff. It can be used within any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports ActiveX components, including Visual C++, Visual Basic, REALbasic, Visual Foxpro, Delphi, Visual Studio .NET, MS Access, WinDev, Xbasic and PowerBuilder.
Using GdViewer Pro ActiveX, you can view, zoom, print and rotate, define a display area, zoom in on an area, play an animated gif, display multi-page tiff files, display pdf files, define your own Zoom in and Zoom out values, use the keyboard to scroll down and across an image, set an anti-aliasing & smoothing display mode, and more.


  • Unicode Support
  • Image viewer: high-quality viewer class with multiple view modes
  • Load and print single & multi-page images
  • Read EXIF, GPS, thumbnail and IPTC tags
  • PDF Viewer
  • Read multi-page Tiffs and change pages quickly and easily
  • Display large image files
  • HSL, CMY, CMYK, RGB, ARGB, sRGB64, ICM, ICM2 color space management
  • Read binary data types such as IStream, IUnknown
  • Load images from URLs using HTTP or FTP protocols
  • Multiple image scaling algorithms: anti-aliasing, Bicubic and Nearest Neighbor Interpolation
  • Support for 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 48-bit and 64-bit color depth
  • Import images from Clipboard, StdPicture, IPicture, HBitmap, and DIB and gdiplus handles
  • Advanced rotation options: 90°, 180°, 270°, flip X or Y-axes
  • Advanced and optimized printing features: print a range of pages from a multi-page file, print multi-page images in single print jobs, fit images to paper size
  • Area processing
  • User-defined display area
  • Animated Gif viewer
  • Built-in timer with TimerTick event
  • Advanced scrollbar and autosize features
  • Aspect Ratio Control
  • Right-click pop up menu, including tools, selection and zoom *
  • Built-in tools including hand tool, pan and zoom, and rectangle selection
  • Move and scroll an image using the mouse
  • Zoom enhance, zoom by height, by width, fit to page
  • User-defined zoom and user-defined area zoom
  • Keyboard and mouse events
  • Change image zoom using the mouse wheel
  • Smooth Scrolling
  • Save and restore the specific position of an image (Image MAP system capability)
  • GdViewerCnt: 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 / 2008 / VISTA / WINDOWS 7



GdViewer Pro ActiveX

4.12.18 (21 February 2011)


License Price/License (USD)
1 Developer 599.00
2 Developers 766.72 package
3 Developers 1150.08 package
4 Developers 1533.44 package
5 Developers 1916.80 package
Site 2396.00 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 major & minor updates of GdViewer 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.