July 1, 2012 | General, Important features, New Releases

GdPicture.NET 9 New Release!

The brand new version 9 is finally here!

Before anything else the developing team would like to say thank you to all the BETA testers for their remarks and suggestions. A constructive BETA makes a successful final release! Merci à tous !

So now, what are the new features and functionalities of GdPicture.NET 9?

We created a webpage with the full description of the new features, functionalities, methods and properties of GdPicture.NET 9. You will find it here.

And a new Reference Guide for the version 9 is available here.

To sum up, here are the main changes in the different categories:

Toolkit Core

  • Binaries for NET Framework 4.5.
  • Memory usage optimization and speed enhancement.
  • Better error handling.
  • User controls appearance customization improved.
  • Multithreading handling improvement especially with the ThumbnailEx control.
  • Better stream handling.
  • Temporary files creation avoided while loading from stream, array of bytes or string data (especially for usage in cloud or in sand-box).
  • Several Unicode issues fixed.
  • OCR & PDF support for RTL languages such as Arabic improved.

Annotations

  • Memory usage optimization and speed enhancement.
  • Synchronisation with other GdPciture Objects (ThumbnailEx, AnnotationEditor, BookmarkTree…) improved.
  • Support for loading and saving annotations of all pages of a document from/to a single XML block.
  • Ruler annotation added.

PDF

  • PDF rasterizer produces any Pixel format bitmap.
  • Support for linearized PDF creation (fast web view mode).
  • PDF Transparency support for rendering.
  • PDF rendering speed increased by 15-30% with lower memory usage.
  • PDF formfield and annotation flattening quality increased.
  • PDF support for alpha channel when adding 32-bit ARGB bitmap (soft mask).
  • PDF Document Viewing preference support.
  • Full files attachment support (embedded file stream).
  • Full PDF transparency support (blend modes).
  • Graphics state stack and transformation matrix support.
  • Digital signature validation with certificate and document content checking as well as digital certificate support with stamp.
  • Page duplication and drawing support.
  • Bookmark reading and writing support.
  • Adding pages directly from another PDF.

Document Imaging

  • Speed improvement of the document imaging filters (autodeskew, despeckle…)
  • New 8bpp and 4bpp quantizer with very high quality, high speed and low memory usage.
  • GIF encoder enhancement to produce better quality image with a dramatically increased speed.
  • Faster image resizer on indexed bitmaps.
  • Memory usage drastically decreased for document filters.
  • Better support for large tiff files (IE 4GB multipage tiff documents).
  • Dramatic speed increase in handling editable multipage tiff & gif.
  • Multipage documents opened in read and write mode by default (as fast as the previous read-only mode).
  • New blob, noise and sophisticated line removal filters.

Barcoding

  • Detection of barcode type specification during 1D barcode recognition process.
  • Option to return undecodable barcode.
  • Added option to specify the number of expected recognized barcode for 1D, Datamatrix , QRCode and PDF417 reader.
  • Speed and accuracy of the 1D, QR-Code and DataMatrix barcode readers increased.Memory usage decreased.
  • New PDF417 Barcode Reader Plugin.

The PDF417 Barcode Recognition Plugin also has its dedicated page. You will find it here.

How do I upgrade to GdPicture.NET 9?

Owners of a GdPicture.NET license version 8 since January 1st, 2012 are eligible for a free upgrade to GdPicture.NET 9. For any upgrade request, create a sales ticket (which includes your license key serial number) on our helpdesk at http://support.gdpicture.com/ selecting the sales upgrade department.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you need anything!

We wish you the very best for your projects!

Cheers,

The GdPicture Team

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