Editor's review
This component helps you manage image and Fax operations.
The MainMedia Image Viewer ActiveX controls lets you integrate functions that help image and Fax operations in applications you develop. There may not be too many people needing this fax support but image support would be useful. This component is optimized for use in Windows. Image operations are needed by many users. It is capable of providing high-performance support for loading, saving, displaying, printing, converting and processing images in the most common image formats. This component gives the capability to read images in BMP, EMF, ICO, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PCX, PNG, PSD, Gif, PNG, PGX, RAS, PNM, WMF, WBMP, TGA and Tiff image files. This utility is capable of writing images in the same formats. For JPEG file, the file size and quality tradeoffs can be made.
Images could be loaded from database tables. Images could be saved into the database in addition. Multi-page TIFF file can be loaded from a given URL. The utility supports CCITT3, JPEG, CCITT4, LZW and Packbits Macintosh RLE Multipage TIFF. Multiple pages of a multipage image can be handled. Printing a range of pages is possible too. You can specify the number of pages to be displayed horizontally and vertically. Resizing of images, rotating and flipping functions are supported. One can easily draw overlay text and watermark images. Cropping an image and rubber band features are supported by the component. Smooth scrolling and an image location bookmark tool are provided. This component is compatible with languages that support ActiveX technology. These include Visual Basic, Visual C++, Delphi, Visual FoxPro, XBasic, Microsoft Word, Access, Realbasic, Microsoft Excel, WinDev, .NET environment like C#, VB.NET, C++ 2005 and others. This is a very good tool.
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