IEvolution History

Top Fifteen Enhancements

1. Added many preview proc methods (IEImage.DoImageProcessingPreviews): Resize, SoftShadow, AutoEnhance, Crop, ColorCurve, Levels, Smoothing, Pixelize, OtherColor, OtherEffects

   

2. Added built-in dialog allowing the content of a TImageEnMView to be saved as a set of thumbnail pages (IEImageList.SavePreviewDialog)

   

3. New dialog to edit properties for the selected layer (IEImage.LayersShowPropertiesDialog)

   

4. Added many layer options: KeyboardShortcuts, DisableTextEditOnDblClick, PreventOutOfBounds, PropsOnDblClick, ResizeOnRotate, DragSelection, ProtectBackground, SwapBackgroundProps, AutoTextEditing, StampMode, ShowRichTextToolbar, AlwReturnsInRichText, ShowRotationGrip, CtrlClickToCopy, PreventLayerDelete, SnapToPos, EdgeSmoothing, PreventDeselection
5. IELineLayers can now be curved (IELineLayer.LineCurve)
6. New Brush Properties dialog available (IEImage.BrushShowPropertiesDialog)

   

7. Support for much more DICOM types, including 8bit JPEG, Big-endian and 32bit float format
8. Significant improvements to editing of DICOM tags, including Unicode tag support
9. Added IEMouseInteract.MeasurePath, IEMouseInteract.DblClickZoom and IEMouseInteract.AdjustBlackWhite interactions
10. Localization improvements including complete translation of Farsi and Serbian (machine translated)

    

11. IEvolution forms remember their position
12. Improved caching of frames by IEImage to speed up animated GIF loading
13. Added OnImageChange and OnLayerSelectionChange events
14. OnLayerNotify includes many extra events
15. Many other optimizations and fixes

Top Ten Enhancements

1. Experimental support for .NET 4
2. Full translations of eight more languages: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Slovenian (machine translation)
3. Added many layer events: BeginResizing, BeginRotating, BeginMoving, Deselected, Edited, BeginCreating, Creating, Created, Action, LeftClicked, RightClicked, DblClicked, MouseOver, EditedPoints, AddedPoint, MovedPoint, Arranged, BeforeRemove, Removed, EditedProps, TextEditorClick, TextEditorChange, NewLayer
4. Improved layout of IEvolution dialogs when used with multiple screens, add implemented form scaling support for the Open Dialog

   

5. Many fixes and improvements to loading of TIFF files using inflate, PNG files and animated GIF files
6. GetNetImage() sets horizontal and vertical DPI
7. JPEG autoscaling considers aspect ratio to optimize loading
8. When converting an image layer, opacity is converted to image alpha
9. IELayer.FillColor and FillColor2 allows a no-color value (Color.Empty) to set as transparent
10. Many other optimizations and fixes

Top Ten Enhancements

1. Significantly optimized performance of IEMulti
2. Imaging engine (Native, DLL or WIC) can be specified for JPEG/PNG/JPEG2000
3. Added mouse interactions for IEViewer: RetouchTool, ColorPicker and SmoothZoom, with new UserInteraction event

   

   

4. IEViewer CropTool now offers a Rotation Grip and easy reselection

   

5. New AutoSetBitDepth property to automatically update properties to match the specified file and pixel format
6. Many WIC improvements, including support for 32bit PNG, alpha channel and EXIF reading
7. Wider support for DICOM, including support for 12 bit jpeg encoding, Segmented Palette Color Lookup Tables and Multiframe Shared functional group rescaling
8. Native Windows open/save dialogs can be used for image loading and saving operations

   

9. Support for many less common TIFF formats including 32 bit (HDR) TIFFs, special LZW encoded tiffs and planar 8 bit gray scale with alpha
10. Many optimizations and fixes

Top Ten Enhancements

1. New Cloning Tool to erase unwanted content

   

2. New interactive Brush Tool to paint images

   

3. New interactive Rotation Tool to freely rotate and flip images
4. Complete translations for 15 languages: Italian, French, German, Russian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish and Greek

   

5. New mouse interaction allows selection of background or subject using a Chroma Key algorithm

   

6. New Flood Fill and Alpha Fill Tools allow your users to replace similar colors in an image with a new color or transparency
7. Improved Selections: Circular and Polygon selections can now be resized. You can also hold the Ctrl key to remove from an existing selection

   

8. New mouse interactions to measure lengths, rectangular and elliptical areas

   

9. Many performance enhancements, including playback of GIFs in IEViewer, displaying Raw Camera images in IEMulti, and more
10. IEvolution now supports all image formats of Microsoft WIC, including DirectDraw Surface, HEIF, WebP, etc.

Top Ten Enhancements

1. LibRaw can be used for Digital Camera Raw formats, providing support for more cameras, multi-shot photo and interpolation features
2. Enhanced PSD features, including support for loading and saving files without merged images, and reading and writing of Exif tags
3. Layer operations are also supported when saving/loading to PSD (as PSD Blend Modes)
4. Various improvements to drawing of layer objects, particularly when layers are zoomed
5. Improved IOParams.ResetInfo method allowing specification of which meta-data to remove
6. Alternative drawing option to provide styling options for many transition effects

   

7. Improved handling of alpha channel when using the clipboard, cropping images and other functions
8. Many performance improvements, including loading of images with large XMP blocks, and when modifying individual thumbnails in IEMulti

   

9. More accurate Remove Isolated Pixels method
10. More modern styling of dialogs now available with option to disable button graphics

Top Ten Enhancements

1. Four New Text and Vector Layer Types

   New layers types for IEViewer, including sixty built-in shapes, lines, pointers, polylines, polygons, and text blocks

   
    

2. Interactive Cropping, Rotation and Perspective Adjustment

   Instantly add cropping and rotated cropping support with new interaction property

   

3. Perspective Fix

   Interactive fixing of perspective distortion

   

4. IEViewer Rulers

   Add rulers to IEViewer with a single property

   

5. Multiple Layer Selection

   Allow your users to select and group multiple layers in IEViewer, and programmatically rotate, resize or move all layers with LayersRotateAll, LayersRepositionAll and LayersSizeAll

   

6. Easier Multiple Undo and Redo

   Many improvements to Undo to make it easier to support multiple undo/redo and display relevant options to users

   

7. New Image Processing methods

   Including "Symmetric Nearest Neighbor" smoothing filter, Pixelize, and "Pencil Sketch" effect

   
    
   

8. New Blurred Background

   Blurred Image background style for IEViewer (like on YouTube when displaying portrait videos)

   

9. Default Thumbnail Text

   Update the display text of all files in an IEMulti without setting individual records

   

10. Windows Explorer Thumbnails

    IEMulti can now use thumbnails of Windows Explorer for extra speed and persistent caching

Top Ten Enhancements

1. ChromaKey Background Removal

   Can now perform ChromaKey removal for green screen image applications

   

2. "Details" View for IEMulti

   New thumbnail layout for IEMulti that displays text to the right of the thumbnail

   

3. Many Other IEMulti Improvements

   While there are too many improvements to list, they include:

   - Better performance via "FastThumb" loading and icon caching
   - Lower resource requirements
   - Improved styling and text display

   

4. DICOM Enhancements

   Significant DICOM improvements, including better reading speed and memory requirements, support for more sub-formats and implementation of the official list of 5,000 Dicom tags

5. ImageMagick Support

   IEvolution can now use ImageMagick to load formats like PDF, PS, PCD and many others

6. MMF Enhancements

   Continuing improvements to our Media Foundation API implementation including automatic rotation of images during video capture

7. TIFF Enhancements

   Numerous TIFF improvements including optimization and support for more sub-formats

8. EMF+ Support

   Now supports EMF+ metafiles

9. Smoother Pan-Zoom Effects

   Pan Zoom effects are now much smoother due to frame blending

10. Enhanced Save Dialog

    The layout of the Save Parameters dialog has been improved and is now resizable

Top Ten Enhancements

1. Can now save to DICOM Medical Imaging Format
2. Can now read BigTIFF files (>4GB TIFFs) and PSB format (large Photoshop PSD)
3. Twenty new transition effects including 3D page flipping and cube rotation, jigsaw puzzle, and "Pacman" effects

   

4. New transition effects that display specified text or cycle the letters of a word

   

5. Many improvements to Image Processing Preview dialog, including better styling when used as a single purpose, such as rotation
6. Added new encryption algorithm for IEImage (which does not show contours of encrypted images)
7. "Fill Page" option to print images to full page size while cropping edges
8. Much wider support for Unicode
9. When rotating layers the anti-alias filter is displayed immediately
10. Image appending methods now retrieve images from remote locations (via FTP and HTTP)

IEvolution 4.3.0

Top Ten Enhancements

1. Now supports 64 bit
2. Improvements to open dialog, including better layout and larger preview options

   

3. Added Arabic and Serbian translations and improved translations of other languages
4. IEViewer.ZoomFilter is now supported by all pixel formats
5. Optimized rendering of CMYK (native) images
6. ICC profiles can now be saved to jpegs (even when from another file)
7. IEAnnotations.PasteFromClipboard now also pastes images on the clipboard as objects
8. New JPEGMarkers property for IOParams
9. Escape key can also be used to terminate insertion of a polyline
10. Various bug fixes

IEvolution 4.1.2

• Can now rotated layer 0 when MouseInteract is set to RotateLayers
• Various bug fixes

IEvolution 4.1.1

Top Five Enhancements

1. Wider support for TIFF and Dicom and faster loading of some JPEG formats
2. New transition effects: Cube Rotate, Soft Wipe and Twist transitions
3. Support for much larger PDF creation through disk caching
4. Images can now be aligned in any vertical or horizontal position
5. Images retrieved using Twain can now be limited by number

IEvolution 4.0.1

Top Five Enhancements

1. Images can be displayed and navigated using Coverflow-style animation

   

2. Preview now available for printing of thumbnails
3. Revamped styling of all ImageEn dialogs

   

4. IEMulti now supports drag style selection

   

5. New Seek method to quickly navigate and load images within multi-frame formats such as TIFF, GIF, ICO and videos