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GdPicture.NET 9.4 medium release has been published.

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New features overview:

- New QrCode barcode encoder for image & PDF.
- New DataMatrix barcode encoder for image & PDF.
- New PDF417 barcode encoder for image & PDF.
- New Sauvola local adaptive thresholding method with contrast normalization.
- Bitonal image filters speed enhancement.
- Unicode support for the QRCode reader engine added.
- Improvement of the Gaussian filter.
- Optional drop shadow effect to the GdPicture.XMP annotation added.
- Improvements of 1D & 2D barcode reading speed and accuracy.
- New function for counting the number of unique colors in an image.
- Horizontal and vertical alignment support in AnnotationText objects.
- SquaredBox property for AnnotationRectangle, AnnotationRectangleHighlighter and AnnotationEllipse objects added.
- Improvements of the internal Image decoding engine.
- PDF text extraction and annotation support improved.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Documentation enhancements and lots of new code snippets.



Interface changes:

GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalErode()
GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalDilate()
GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalErodeV()

GdPicturePDF: new method AddTextFormField()
GdPicturePDF: new overloaded method DigiSign() taking stream as parameter.
GdPicturePDF: new overloaded method DigiSignWithStamp() taking stream as parameter.
GdPicturePDF: new method GetAnnotationOpacity()
GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldTextAlignment()
GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldBackgroundColor()
GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldBorderColor()
GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldBorderStyle()
GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldChildCount()
GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldChildID()
GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldMaxLen()
GdPicturePDF: new method GetPageLinkAnnotationIdx()
GdPicturePDF: new method RemoveFormFields()
GdPicturePDF: new method RemovePageLink()
GdPicturePDF: new method RemovePageLinks()
GdPicturePDF: new method SetAnnotationOpacity()
GdPicturePDF: new overloaded method SetBookMarkColor() to accept CMYK color space.
GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldTextAlignment()
GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldBackgroundColor()
GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldBorderColor()
GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldBorderStyle()
GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldMaxLen()

GdViewer: new method AddCustomAnnotInteractive()
GdViewer: new event OnCustomAnnotationPaint()

AnnotationManager: new event OnCustomAnnotationPaint()
AnnotationManager: new method AddCustomAnnot()

BookmarkTree: new property ItemHeight.
BookmarkTree: new method SetNodeBitmap()

Emergency update fixing memory access violation in OCR and filters.

- Battery of minor bug fixes
- GdPicturePDF: new method GetObjectInterop() (in the COM/ActiveX edition only)

- Battery of minor bug fixes

- Battery of minor bug fixes
- AnnotationManager: new method GetAnnotationType().
- GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method SaveAsIco() to better handle transparency.

- AnnotationStickyNotes: new properties DashStyle, Alignment, LineAlignment, StrokeColor, BorderWidth, Stroke.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.

- Improved non GUI thread TWAIN scanning behavior.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.

- Battery of minor bug fixes
- New property CanEditText in AnnotationStickyNote and AnnotationText classes.

- Battery of minor bug fixes

- Battery of minor bug fixes
- Improvements on the QRcode generator

- Battery of minor bug fixes
- New overload DrawGradientLine() for COM Interop purpose.

- Battery of minor bug fixes

- Battery of minor bug fixes