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GdPicture.NET V 6.4 Releases are available !


Major improvements

- Added support for 1D Barcode recognition, near than 20 different types. Need additional license, see: https://www.gdpicture.com/products/plugi ... nition.php
- Speed optimization for filters.
- New support for barcode writing. More than 30 barcode types are now supported. Warning: no backward compatibility with previous versions !!
- Support for get & set alpha channel quickly.
- Speed improvement of the document viewer.
- Added support for custom dictionaries in GdPicture Tesseract Plugin.
- Added reading support for PICT image format
- Added support for more than 40 RAW camera image formats ! See: https://www.gdpicture.com/solutions/Imag ... rawformats




New methods of the GdPictureImaging class

New method: Barcode1DReaderDoScan()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeCount()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeType()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeValue()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeSkewAngle()
New method: Barcode1DReaderBarcodeHasChecksum()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeX1()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeX2()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeX3()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeX4()
New method: Barcode1DReaderBarcodeHasChecksum()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeY1()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeY2()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeY3()
New method: Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeY4()
New method: DrawFilledPolygonTextureFromFile()
New method: DrawFilledPolygonTextureFromGdPictureImage()
New method: DrawLineTextureFromGdPictureImage()
New method: DrawFilledCircleTextureFromGdPictureImage()
New method: DrawFilledCircleTextureFromFile()
New method: GetAlphaChannel()
New method: SetAlphaChannel()
New method: GetTiffCompression()
New method: TwainGetBitDepthReduction()
New method: TwainSetBitDepthReduction()
New method: SetLicenseNumber1DBarcodeRecognition()


New enumeration members for TesseractDictionary:

TesseractDictionaryCustom1
TesseractDictionaryCustom2
TesseractDictionaryCustom3
TesseractDictionaryCustom4
TesseractDictionaryCustom5


New methods of the GdViewer class

New method: PdfGetEncryptionScheme()
New method: IsRectDrawing()
New method: IsRectEditing()

GdPictureImaging: New overload method Barcode1DReaderDoScan()
GdViewer: New method PrintForcePdfDpiRendering()

- Speed improvement for bitmap access
- Spool size reduction for document printing
- Fixed a bug when PDF/A are generated from some Time zones
- Some other minor bug fixes

- GdPictureImaging: New overloaded method of Barcode1dWrite()
- GdPictureImaging: New overloaded method of IsBitonal()
- GdPictureImaging: New method ConvertTo1BppLum()
- Bug fix with printing alignment in lanscape
- Bug fix with coordinate space when a page is rotated
- Memory leak fixed after a rotation of a cloned image
- Improvement of the barcode recognition speed & accuracy

GdPictureImaging: new method PdfSetCompressionForBitonalImage()
GdPictureImaging: new method PdfSetCompressionForColorImage()
GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method TiffSaveMultiPageToFile() to support JPEG compression scheme in multipage tiff.

- Major bug fix with license management.

- Regions bug fix
- Added capability to save PDF into a stream:

GdPictureImaging: New methods SaveAsPDFStream()
GdPictureImaging: New methods SaveAsPDFOCRStream()
GdPictureImaging: New methods TwainPdfStartStream()
GdPictureImaging: New methods PdfOCRStartStream()
GdPictureImaging: new overloaded methods PdfNewPDF() - added support to create PDF direcly to a Stream object

- Some minor bug fixes
- Improvement of the document printing quality & speed

- Added Unicode support for OCR
- Bug fix "InvalidOperationException: DragDrop registration did not succeed"

- OCR bug fix
- TWAIN bug fix with DiscarBlankPage feature

- OCR bug fixes
- PDF can now be displayed from Stream
- Improvement of the rendering speed
- Other minor bug fixes
- Optimization of the toolkit core for Windows 7
- GdViewer: New overloaded method DisplayFromStream()
- Documentation is now available in PDF format & HTML

- GdPicture.NET core is now thread safe ! (plugins are not: work in progress...)
- Bug fix with RAW format rendering
- Some other minor bug fixes