We are proud to announce the release of new major version 8.6 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK and the related Annotation, PDF,
JBIG2, JPEG2000, Document Cleanup, OCR, DICOM, and Forms Processing Plug-ins.
What's new in v8.6 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK:
Display images in WinForms or WPF viewers
Now image viewers can display images in the multipage view mode.
All important visual tools (zoom, magnifier, image map, selection, overlay image, etc) support the multipage view mode.
Display images in Web (HTML5 or SVG) viewers
Increased the performance of HTML5 and SVG image viewers.
Optimized the displaying of animation in HTML5 and SVG image viewers.
Image processing
Created the commands for processing of images in the frequency domain using fast Fourier transform.
Created the command allowing to get a per-pixel comparison of two images.
Web services
Many improvements and changes in architecture of web services.
WinForms and WPF demo applications
Created a set of WinForms and WPF mini-demo applications. Each mini-demo application is simple, independent and demonstrates one or several SDK features: document viewer, PDF document viewer, simple annotation demo, thumbnail viewer customization, ect.
Web (ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC) demo applications
Added the ability to localize the interface of demo applications (l20n library is used). The interface of demo applications has been localized to English and Russian languages. If you want to localize the interface of demo applications to your language, you are welcome!
Added the ability to display the video stream and capture images from HTML5 web camera.
Added the ability to view, annotate and fill PDF document in multipage view mode.
Edit PDF content in WinForms or WPF viewers
Added the ability to simultaneously edit and remove content of several PDF pages, when the viewer works in multipage view mode.
Added the ability to move PDF annotations and interactive fields from one page to another, when the viewer works in multipage view mode.
Added the ability to find, highlight forms or images on PDF page, remove forms or images from PDF page.
Display PDF documents in Web (HTML5 or SVG) viewers
Added the ability to search and highlight text on PDF page, extract text from PDF page.
Added the ability to select images on PDF page, extract images from PDF page.
PDF/A verifiers and converters
Now PDF/A converter can process PDF documents with transparency.
Many improvements in PDF/A converters and verifiers.
PDF document optimization
Added the ability to remove unused resources of PDF document, page or form.
Optimized the packing algorithm of PDF documents.
Web services
Created web services, which allow to work with PDF documents in ASP.NET applications.
WinForms and WPF demo applications
Added the ability to work with PDF document in multipage view mode.
Added new abilities to process PDF document: remove unused resources of PDF document, pack/unpack the data streams of PDF document, convert TrueType font into CFF font.
Web (ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC) demo applications
Added the ability to search and highlight text on PDF page, extract text from PDF page.
Added the ability to extract images from PDF page.
Version 8.6.2.1 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK has been released.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK:
Fixed the critical bug in image viewer. The image viewer not correctly displayed images in multipage image display mode if image viewer was used on hi-resolution displays. This bug started in version 8.6.0.1.
Fixed the bug in image viewer. The image viewer not correctly displayed images in multipage image display mode if image anchor is specified. This bug started in version 8.6.0.1.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft PDF .NET Plug-in:
Optimized the interpreter of PostSсript functions.
Fixed some bugs in PDF/A converters.
Fixed the bug in algorithm that converts text from PDF page into monospace text.
Fixed the bug in interpreter of PostSсript functions.
Version 8.6.3.1 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK has been released.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK:
Updated the source codes of ScrollPages visual tool. Now the visual tool can scroll images in multipage image display mode.
The source codes of visual tool can be found in distributive package of SDK: "[InstallPath]\VintaSoft Imaging .NET v8.6\Examples\CSharp\ImagingDemosCommonCode\DemosCommonCode.Imaging\VisualTools\ScrollPages.cs"
Fixed non-critical bugs in image viewer. The image viewer did not correctly display images in multipage image display mode in BesFit, FitToWidth and FitToHeight modes when image viewer was used on hi-resolution displays. This bug appeared since version 8.6.0.1.
Added the PointToThumbnailIndex method to the ThumbnailViewer class.
Fixed the memory leak in web services VintasoftFileWebService, VintasoftImageWebService and VintasoftImageProcessingWebService.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft Annotation .NET Plug-in:
Fixed the non-critical bug in annotation viewer. The annotation viewer did not correctly transfer annotations between images in multipage image display mode when annotation viewer was used on hi-resolution displays. This bug appeared since version 8.6.0.1.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft PDF .NET Plug-in:
Now the PdfAnnotationTool visual tool allows to use TAB key for navigating through all interactive fields of all pages of PDF document.
For doing this the value of PdfAnnotationTool.IsNavigationLoopedOnFocusedPage property must be set to False.
Previously the PDF annotation tool allowed to use TAB key for navigating through all interactive fields of single PDF page.
Added new PDF trigger - PdfTriggers.ContentStreamOperatorUsesOverprintControl. The trigger allows to determine that the overprint functionality is used while rendering a PDF page.
Version 8.6.4.1 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK has been released.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK:
Improved the architecture of classes, which allow to manage changes (undo/redo) in objects (image, annotation collection, annotation, etc). Now the undo/redo functionality can be quickly and easily implemented into your application.
Added the ability to manage changes (undo/redo) in image viewer working in multipage image display mode.
Fixed the minor bug in image viewer.
Improved the algorith of TIFF encoder.
Added some improvements in ImagingDemo and SimpleDemos projects.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft Annotation .NET Plug-in:
Fixed the bug in algorithm that manages changes history (undo/redo) in annotation viewer.
Added some improvements in AnnotationDemo project.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft PDF .NET Plug-in:
Increased the performance of algorithm that renders Tiling patterns.
Added some improvements in PDF/A converters.
Fixed several bugs in PDF/A verifiers.
Improved the algorithm that renders PDF page for print preview.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft Document Cleanup .NET Plug-in:
Created new document cleanup command GetTextOrientationCommand. Command allows to detect text orientation in document image.
Improved the algorithm of AutoTextOrientationCommand class. Now command provides better results for images with tables and graphic lines.