Reviewer, 2007-05-04 06:41:00

GdPicture OCX is a low cost and completely royalty free image processing ActiveX component to view, create, print, edit, and compose bitmap images. The control can display, read, convert, and write images in a large variety of formats such as: tiff, fax, gif, jpeg, png, wmf, emf, bmp, ico, dib and pdf.

Users of GdPicture can add images-rich features to their applications quickly and easily including image processing functions, color conversion, image compression, image display, print, effect, merge to name a few.

The component includes several major functions such as: flip, rotate, resize and zoom the image, fully control the scroll action, draw text and image, get tiff tags and Exif information, append, delete, insert, move and swap pages within an existing Tiff.

In addition to its ability to convert images to different formats, it can also acquire images from a TWAIN scanner, and can watermark images.

The main attraction of this component is the ability to add an inexpensive and high quality image viewer to your applications. Included are code samples using Visual Basic, ASP, Visual Fox Pro and PHP to help developers rapidly deploy and use the component with a minimum of coding.