Black Ice Software is proud to announce the release of the Document Imaging SDK 12.84 with a set of brand new shape annotations; Arrow Left, Arrow Right, Arrow Top, and Arrow Bottom.

The new Arrow annotations provide a simpler implementation to help developers to focus on their application, rather than writing a large codebase for the annotations. The new Arrow annotations also come with easier usability for end-users.

In the new Annotation C++ Sample and the C# using ActiveX control sample, developers can see all the new annotations in action, and by using the online document of the Annotation SDK, developers can find all the functions needed to implement in their application.

The latest Document Imaging SDK comes with further improvements for the text and checkbox annotations. The improved checkbox annotations now can be created with a single click instead of dragging the mouse. The new text annotation comes with new features to let users change the background color of the text while editing.

Since the last newsletter, there were many significant improvements and many new features added. Please see the version history below.

The complete list of improvements in the latest Document Imaging includes the following:

DATE: 11-02-2021
Version: 12.84 (revision: 848)

• Annotation - Fixed incorrect Undo functionality with shape annotation objects (#14268)
• Annotation - Fixed incorrect flipping and rotating functionality in a few cases (#14282, #14278)
• Annotation - Fixed shape changing not working in some cases (#14283)
• Annotation - Annotation objects no longer jump away when resized on the left or top side (#14341)
• Annotation - Added ability to move the selected annotation object with the arrow keys on the keyboard (#14292)
• Annotation - Made hyperlinks clickable in Design mode
• Annotation - Fixed WANG annotation hyperlink conversion issue (#14392)
• Annotation - Fixed Text annotation display issue (#14393)
• Annotation - Fixed issues with relative hyperlinks (#14419)
• Annotation - Fixed conversion issue from old binary annotation format (#14420)
• Annotation - Added Comment, Checkbox, Textbox, Multiline Textbox and Datetime annotation functions to BiAnno.ocx
• Annotation - Added Comment, Checkbox, Textbox, Multiline Textbox, Datetime and Arrow shape annotations to the Document Imaging and Annotation C# samples (#14233)
• Annotation - Fixed issue with the redrawing of annotations (#14528)
• DIB - Added GetDIBMargins and CropDIBMargins functions for detecting and cutting off page margins (#14187)
• Printing - Added PrintDIBPageEx function that lets one specify the printer settings (e.g page size) for each page separately (#14105, #14130)
• TIFF - Stability improvement for reading JPEG compressed TIFF images with the 64 bit SDK (#14422)
• TIFF - Stability improvement for opening TIFF files larger than 2 GB with the 64 bit SDK (#14452)

DATE: 07-28-2021
Version: 12.83 (revision: 819)

• Annotation – Added “shape” annotation type (#14189)
• Annotation – Improved drawing arrow heads on large DPI documents (#14219)
• Annotation – Checkbox annotations can be created with a single click instead of dragging the mouse (#14224)
• Annotation – Fixed drawing the border of checkbox annotations (#14223)
• Annotation – Added option for changing and disabling the background of the Text annotation editor (#14234)
• Annotation – Added function for making the text editor cursor blink (#14242)

DATE: 07-12-2021
Version: 12.82 (revision: 805)

• TIFF – Added 8-bit grayscale support to the TIFF JPEG file format in the SaveDIBInTiffFile function (#6456)
• Stability improvement for reading JPEG compressed TIFF images that use the JPEGInterchangeFormat (513) TIFF tag. (#13936)
• Added support to reading IBM IOCA and MO:DCA images (#13918, #13966)
• Annotation – Stability improvement for reading longer text annotations (#13943)
• Annotation – Added support to opening JPG, GIF and PNG images (#13941)
• Printing – Not adding the extension to the document name when printing (#13839)
• Document Imaging Sample – Use the original compression when saving the document (#13105, #13850)
• Minor user interface improvements in the samples (#13955)

DATE: 01-28-2021
Version: 12.81 (revision: 794)

• Annotation – Stability improvement for reading text annotations made in Tiff Viewer 11.98.1145 or earlier (#13317)
• Updated Manuals

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