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ThumbnailEx:

Thumbnail Viewer Control For GdPicture.NET

Overview

GdPicture.NET includes a powerful Thumbnail Viewer Component formerly called ThumbnailEx.

ThumbnailEx is an embeddable control to display thumbnails from raster image, metafile and PDF documents in asynchronous mode to maximize performances. The control can load battery of documents (including PDF) from files or GdPicture Images.

Features

  • Generate HQ thumbnails from PDF pages.
  • Generate HQ thumbnails from Images in more than 90 formats.
  • Generate thumbnails from directory including subfolders.
  • Generate thumbnails from GdPicture Image or GdPicturePDF object with multipage support.
  • Asynchronous thumbnails generation.
  • Drag & drop support.
  • Items reordering by mouse actions.
  • Dramatically fast item generation.
  • Anti-aliasing for smooth appearance.
  • Scale a bitonal bitmap to a gray bitmap for better image looking.
  • Customize thumbnail size: width & height.
  • Multi-thread support.
  • And lot of other nice features...

How to use it

Download and install GdPicture.NET package from here.

  • You will be able to find a compiled demo application in [Install directory]\samples\Bin\Document Viewer.exe and PagesManipulation.exe
  • You will be able to find C# and VB.NET demo applications including source code in [Install directory]\samples\AnyCPU\ (see Document Viewer & Pages Manipulation apps.).
  • You will find other code snippets within the online reference guide found here http://guides.gdpicture.com
  • You can find some discussions about TWAIN in the dedicated section of our community forums located here http://forums.gdpicture.com/thumbnail-viewer/