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.

Major Product Features
- 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.
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(*) Context menu of the viewer :

Supported image file formats
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System Requirements
Microsoft Windows (32-bit or 64-bit): 98 / NT4 / ME / 2000 / XP / 2003 / 2008 / VISTA / WINDOWS 7
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