ImageGear for Silverlight v16 - Release Candidate

High Speed Display

Silverlight developers can have complete control over how your application displays each image. All of the display attributes affect the display only. They do not alter either the image bitmap or the color palette in the DIB. In addition, any time your image is being displayed, you can center, zoom or scroll it from within your application.  Among the attributes you can set on an image-by-image basis are:

• Auto-color reduction for low color modes
• High-quality display for all video modes
• Contrast/Brightness control
• Display effects (wipes, blocks, etc.)
• Color reduction (several types)
• Transparency
• Gamma correction
• Dithering
• Rotation
• The region within the display area where the image is to be displayed (this area is called the Device Rectangle)
• The portion of the image to display (this array of pixels within the DIB bitmap is called the Image Rectangle)
  How to fit the Image Rectangle to the Device Rectangle
  The background fill pattern and color to use (for any area of the Device Rectangle left vacant by the image)
  Center image in window
• Fit to width/height/window
• Precision scrolling
• Sub-region display
• Auto-aspect ratioPreserve black and preserve white display for 1-bit images
• Sub-second display rotation
• Faster image display
• Anti-alias display
• Huge image display capability
• Merge two Images during display
• 4x faster scale-to-gray
• Using LUTs (look-up tables) to cause the colors in an image's color palette to be translated to other colors you select (i.e., you can display an 8-bit grayscale image in any 256 colors you choose)

Digital Camera Support

ImageGear provides developers with support for a wide range of digital camera RAW formats. Each camera model is exhaustively tested to work with ImageGear so you can develop your application without worrying about compatibility problems. The following are the latest digital camera features:

Nearly 200 Digital Cameras Supported

Support for more than 80 new digital camera RAW file formats. Learn more about supported digital camera RAW file formats.

Powerful Color Reconstruction GUI

Interactive GUI for Digital Camera RAW color reconstruction. Developers can reconstrct Camera Raw images with an ImageGear Processing API and Control Parameters for the Digital Camera Raw and Headerless Camera Raw Filters.

More File Formats

ImageGear provides developers a large library of supported files formats. We make sure that we support new files as they are created and in addition, the AccuSoft Image Guarantee™ allows developers to know that we stand behind our imaging tools. The following are the latest file formats available in our imaging SDKs:

Quickly Work with the Latest XPS Docs

Support for the new file format: XPS. The XPS Document format represents a set of related pages with a fixed layout, which are organized as one or more documents.

Easily Handle Huge Adobe PSB Files

ImageGear provides support for the Adobe PSB (Photoshop Big) or Large Document format, which is a newer version of Adobe PSD designed for files over 2 gigabytes, supporting up to 300,000 pixels in any dimension. The PSB format is almost identical to the Photoshop native format (PSD).

Juggle Photoshop Layers Easily

ImageGear now allows users to load layered Photoshop image files (Adobe PSD and Adobe PSB) and retain image layers for editing. Users can also create new image layers, delete existing ones, as well as flatten and display the selected composition of image layers.

Manipulate Spot Colors Easily

Developers can easily work with spot colors from Pantone or Adobe colorbooks via API.  ImageGear supports multiple extra channels and can preserve spot colors while converting these into file formats or color spaces like RGB and CMYK.

New Image Processing

ImageGear provides a wide range of image processing features for developers. We constantly enhance and develop new time-saving image processing tools for imaging developers. The following are the latest image processing enhancements:

Save Time with ImageClean™ Enhancements

For developers working with 1-bit images, ImageGear provides many time-saving methods to modify and enhance black and white data with a set of ImageClean functions. The following are new ImageClean features:

No More Punch Hole Marks

RemovePunchHoles automatically detects and removes the punch holes on a 1-bit scanned image. It works for most common hole puncher standards including 2, 3, 4 and 5 hole puncher marks. The method takes a 1-bit image page and the set of advanced parameters specifying the location and diameter of punch holes.

Watch Lines Disappear

RemoveLines automatically detects and removes horizontal and vertical solid and broken lines on the 1-bit scanned image. The method takes a 1-bit image page and the set of advanced parameters specifying the line's attributes.

Dot Lines Removed in a Snap

RemoveDotLines automatically detects and removes horizontal and vertical dotted lines on the 1-bit scanned image. The method takes a 1-bit image page and the set of advanced parameters specifying the attributes to be used for the processing.

Powerful Mathematical Morphology

The field of mathematical morphology contributes a wide range of operators to image processing, all based around a few simple mathematical concepts from set theory. The operators are particularly useful for the analysis of binary images and common usages include edge detection, noise removal, image enhancement and image segmentation.

The following morphology image processing functions have been added: Erode, Dilate, Open, and Close.

Time-Saving Special Effects

Developers can now use the following new image processing effects:

Shear

The Shear function applies a shearing effect to an image, moving the image rasters or columns according to the specified offsets.

Aging

The Aging function applies an aging effect to make an image look older.

Spatter

The Spatter function applies a spatter effect to an image, making it look to have been painted in the impressionist style of painting.

Shadow

The DropShadow function adds a drop shadow to an image.

Oilify

The Oilify function makes the image appear similar to an oil painting.

Functional Light

• The DirectionalLight function adds bars of light according to a sine wave pattern.
• The RadialLight function adds circles of light according to a sine wave pattern.
• The FreeDirectionalLight function adds bars of light according to a custom pattern.
• The FreeRadialLight function adds circles of light according to a custom pattern.

Fragmentation

The Fragment function fragments an image into four blended images which move diagonally outward from the original image.

Lens Flare

The LensFlare function applies a lens flare effect to the image.

Pointillist

The Pointillist function makes the image appear to have been painted in the pointillism style of painting.

New Image Processing Effects

Developers can now use the following image processing effects: Vignette, Round Corners, Night Vision, Toy Camera, Sepia, Duotone, Spotlights, Picturize, Glass, High Density Range, Glowing Edges, Pencil Sketch, Hot Wax, Historic Photo, Boost, Adjust White Balance, Cooler/warmer, Chromatic Aberration Removal.

Version 16.0 - Release Candidate

ImageGear for Silverlight, the industry's first comprehensive imaging SDK of choice to build better Silverlight applications faster. Use our Silverlight imaging SDK and easily develop robust applications with everything developers need in a comprehensive imaging toolkit. Here is a list of updates in each release:

Reading and writing 100+ file formats
File format conversion
Download Manager engine
Multi-page images support
In-memory access to image pixel data
Access to image metadata
Display
Comprehensive image processing
Image enhancement
Special effects
Analysis/correction/manipulation of computer-generated images
Color processing: reduction/promotion/dithering
Thumbnail read and write support
Alpha channels support
Pantone channels support
ROI processing
Comprehensive Annotations support: adding/editing/burn-in/deleting
Analysis/correction/manipulation of scanned images
Medical/DICOM format support
DICOM image processing
DICOM metadata support
Comprehensive Digital Camera RAW formats support
Image and Document Clean processing

System Requirements - Release Candidate

Runtime Environment Operating Systems and Browsers

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 must be installed on the following platforms:

• Windows Vista
  Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2.x
• Windows XP SP2
  Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2.x
• Windows 2000
  Internet Explorer 6
• Windows Server 2003 (excluding IA-64)
  Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2.x
• Mac OS 10.4.8+ (Intel-based)
  Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2.x, Safari

Development Environments

Supported Development Environment Operating Systems

• Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
• Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
• Windows XP Service Pack 2
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Windows Vista
• Windows Vista 64-bit Edition

Supported Development Tools

• Visual Studio 2008
• Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008

Customer Listing

Every day, millions of users around the world use applications that were created with our time-tested imaging technology. With over 2,000 built-in imaging functions in 27 categories and support for more than 150 file formats, developers in diverse industries turn to AccuSoft time and time again to accelerate the development of their imaging and image-enabled solutions. Learn more

U.S. Department of Homeland Security MedPlus Nationwide Mutual Life Patent & Trademark 3M Softmed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Paperwise Snap-On Business Solutions National City Corporation McKesson CitiGroup Cognos DocStar Ektron Jack Henry

Corel Xerox Airbus Printsoft Development Pty. Ltd. Sovereign Services Ltd. Unisys China Siemens AG Medical Solutions GFT Solutions GmbH Cistec AG Itesoft SA CSC Ltd UK IBA Dosimetry BancTec GmbH Fujitsu Services UK Ltd.

Evaluation Support

Support is provided at no charge when you evaluate AccuSoft's toolkit products, enabling you to judge their suitability for use within your application. You can log questions via our online support center, and have access to a Technical Support Engineer during your product evaluation period.

Preferred Support

This is the base-level support option and is included in the purchase price of AccuSoft's toolkit products. It includes an ever-evolving set of online support services that allow you to quickly find answers to your questions interactively from our knowledge databasebase or to submit a support ticket via our Web site. Users register with an email username and password, which provides access to this secure support section of our Web site. Preferred support is entirely Web-based and customer-driven with access to updates and fixes limited to version-specific items only.

Preferred Support includes:

• Electronic submission of product problems and questions, and the ability to update and track the progress of your case
• Knowledge databases for our products that provide answers and fixes to commonly asked questions and problems
• Comprehensive product documentation including the latest guides and manuals, technical bulletins, flashes, and release notes
• Product fixes, release and maintenance information
• Preferred Support provides access to ALL patches, fixes, updates, enhancements (including new versions/releases) that may be issued to the licensed product during your support term. Preferred support is entirely Web-based.

Premier Support

Our Premier Support option provides a more personalized service level, and ensures prompt access to our expert technical support analysts.

Included are all of the Preferred Support services as well as access to AccuSoft’s Customer Support Department during our normal business hours (Monday thru Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST (except on designated holidays). Premier Support is pro-active, with personalized contact via any/all methods (Web, email, phone, etc.) and includes all updates to new versions or releases.

Premier Support guarantees a response to your issue, and includes access to a browser-based, real-time, electronic support solution that creates an interactive customer service environment that is significantly more personal and effective. Should we need to investigate an issue within your own environment, our electronic support solution enables our support analysts to:

• Access your system to view, diagnose and solve your problems remotely
• Run applications to ensure proper installation and configuration
• Demonstrate AccuSoft products
• Download and install patches or updates to your system
• Upload your files for analysis
• Include other analysts for consultation
• Interact with you via text chat
• Show and annotate diagrams, schematics, and videos
• Record the entire support session for archival purposes

Pricing Plans

Flexible Business Terms Help You Stay Competitive

When it comes to pricing, our customers benefit from our decades of experience in structuring agreements that support their needs. While others take a cookie-cutter approach to pricing, we understand that our customers have unique business models and requirements. We offer flexible licensing & pricing options and work diligently with each customer to put together a deal that is mutually beneficial. Whether you’re developing an enterprise application to support your organization or you’re an ISV or OEM creating a solution for resale, our goal is to help you be successful.

Release Candidate

During the beta test period, this product is not available for purchase. If you are interested in purchasing the final release, please contact us.