GrapeCity Documents for Imaging (GcImaging) is a cross-platform library for working with raster and vector (SVG) images. GcImaging supports several popular image formats including PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WEBP, BMP, GIF, ICO and SVG. It provides powerful text layout, font management and graphics engines that allow drawing high-quality text and graphics on images. It allows you to resize, rotate, and crop images, apply various filters and effects, and convert images between all supported image formats. HTML content can be rendered using the optional GcHtml library (https://www.nuget.org/packages/GrapeCity.Documents.Html/). GcImaging does not depend on specific hardware or third-party libraries. It is compatible with .NET 7, .NET 6, .NET 5, .NET Core 3.x and 2.x, .NET Standard 2.x, .NET Framework 4.6.1 or higher. All features are fully supported on Windows, macOS and Linux. The online Documents for Imaging sample browser is available at https://www.grapecity.com/documents-api-imaging/demos/
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GrapeCity Documents for Imaging
GrapeCity Documents for Imaging (GcImaging) is a fast, powerful Imaging API library that allows developers to do advanced image processing in C# or VB.NET code with no 3rd party dependencies. Some of the features include:
- Read and write BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000 (read-only), TIFF, GIF, ICO, and PNG raster image formats.
- Read and write multi-frame GIF, ICO, and TIFF formats with access to individual frames.
- Read Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG, SVGZ) images into the provided SVG document object model.
- Create from scratch or modify existing SVG images using the SVG DOM.
- Rasterize vector images to combine with other graphics.
- Use the full set of common graphics drawing and filling operations.
- Advanced text rendering capabilities, powerful character and paragraph formatting.
- Support for RTL text (including Kashida in Arabic) and bitmap glyphs in OpenType CJK fonts.
- Programmatically create, load, modify, save or convert images.
- Perform rotate, flip, crop, resize, composite, blend operations.
- Apply dithering, thresholding and RGB effects.
- Advanced processing of color and alpha channels.
- Full access to EXIF metadata.
GcImaging is compatible with .NET 7, .NET 6, .NET Core 3.1, .NET Standard 2.x, .NET Framework 4.6.1 or higher.
All features are fully supported on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Resources
- Explore Live Demos
- Getting Started
- License Information
- Licensing FAQ
- How to get Trial Keys
- Online Documentation
- Offline Documentation (PDF)
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