ImageEn v14.0.0 released with 64bit IDE support, code optimizations, SVG features and much more

 We have now released ImageEn, v14.0.0, the latest update to our image editing and display library for Delphi/C++Builder This update is free if you purchased a license or extension after 21 March 2024:

http://www.imageen.com/support/download/

Other users can extend their registration for 12 months at:

http://www.imageen.com/order/#Extensions

Note: The installer now includes all plug-ins, you do not need to download them separately

Top Fifteen Enhancements in ImageEn v14.0.0

1. ImageEn support for Delphi 12.3 64bit IDE

2. Significant code optimization, including TImageEnVect code no longer embedded when compiling (unless used), saving 450KB from all your EXEs

3. Layer objects can be used with the PDF Viewer and added to PDF pages



4. TImageEnProc.RemoveIsolatedPixels now allows you to clean up full color images

 

5. New zoom hover button for TImageEnView



6. Vectorizing of raster images (like PNG) to SVG

7. Many layer improvements including free rotation of Polyline layers with complex paths (e.g. bezier curves), GDI+ anti-aliasing for shape layers, and new end shapes for line layers

8. Many keyboard improvements for TImageEnView including a new KeyInteract property to handle all options, and new shortcuts: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Reset Zoom, Show Rulers, Undo and Redo

9. When multiple layers are scaled together, their positions are also scaled to maintain the overall look



10. TImageEnMView popup menu now includes a full-size image preview with navigation

11. Any ImageEn shape can now be used for layer and selection grips for TImageEnView and TIEColorCurve, e.g. stars and diamonds

12. Better memory handling for TIFF files with tiles or very large meta-data blocks. Also, ResetInfo() will now clear any large Photoshop meta-data blocks

13. New TIEAcquireParams properties: StandardSize, AcquireCount, AutoDeskew, XScaling and YScaling

14. Dynamic sizing of cached Layers for better performance at high zoom levels

15. Objects in PDF pages can now be arranged (i.e. change of z-order)

Full Change History: https://www.imageen.com/info/HistoryFull.html

Enhanced styling, improved rulers and PDF improvements in ImageEn Imaging Library, v13.7.0

 We have now released ImageEn, v13.7.0, the latest update to our image editing and display library for Delphi/C++Builder, and IEVision Advanced Tools Add-on 8.1.5. These updates are free if you purchased a license or extension after 27 December 2023:

http://www.imageen.com/support/download/

Other users can extend their registration for 12 months at:

http://www.imageen.com/order/#Extensions

Note: The installer now includes all plug-ins, you do not need to download them separately

Top Ten Enhancements in ImageEn v13.7.0

1. Improvements to styling and layout of ImageEn dialogs, and modern styling for TImageEnView ruler



2. Automatic popup menu to specify units for TImageEnView ruler



3. Optimized performance and memory for PDF Viewer and TImageEnMView when loading large PDF files, including optional pre-loading of all pages

4. Updated PDFium to v133.0.6844 with improvements to PDF object and annotation selection and attachment support even in older Delphi versions



5. Images can be automatically optimized when saving by removing any content hidden by the alpha channel

6. SVG optimizations including support for localized region settings

7. New helper methods to force loading in TImageEnView and ImageEnMView using PlugIns such as ImageMagick, LibWebP, etc

8. Margins, centering and enlargement parameters for IECreatePDFFromFileList helper method

9. TImageEnFolderMView automatically detects adding and removing of drives

10. Improved memory handling when loading TIFF files with very large data blocks

Full Change History: https://www.imageen.com/info/HistoryFull.html


Nigel
Xequte Software
www.imageen.com

Native SVG Support, Saving to WebP and HEIF, plus editing of PDF Annotations and Form Fields in ImageEn v13.5.0

We have now released ImageEn, v13.5.0, the latest update to our image editing and display library for Delphi/C++Builder, and IEVision Advanced Tools Add-on 8.1.3. 

 

Learn more about ImageEn, and download a trial from: 

 http://www.imageen.com

Top Ten Enhancements in ImageEn v13.5.0

1. Native support for SVG rendering and importing as layers




2. WebP Plug-in to load and save WebP files, including Lossless

3. PDF Annotation and Form Field editing, including display of selected annotation, moving and positioning, and deletion




4. IO and Proc helper properties for TImage and TBitmap: Instantly add support for loading and saving to all ImageEn formats, all editing operations, plus printing and acquisition

5. Assign methods of ImageEn classes and components all support TGraphic, TImage, TPicture and TBitmap

6. New Cartoonify method




7. Saving to HEIF format now supported (via WIC)

8. Automatic Orientation option when printing images and PDF pages

9. TIEFileListBox support natural, case-insensitive and descending sort options




10. Documentation supports #Tags to make it easier to search common topics

Full Change History: https://www.imageen.com/info/HistoryFull.html

Improved IDE integration, PDF Object Editing and Google Vision improvements in ImageEn v13.2.0

 We have now released ImageEn, v13.2.0, the latest update to our image editing and display library for Delphi/C++Builder, and IEVision Advanced Tools Add-on 8.1.1. These updates are free if you purchased a license or extension after 8 May 2023:

http://www.imageen.com/support/download/

Other users can extend their registration for 12 months at:

http://www.imageen.com/order/#Extensions

Top Ten Enhancements in ImageEn v13.2.0

1. Improvements to performance of Debugging Visualizer, plus new features including live viewing of the alpha channel



2. ImageEn now integrates into the IDE including quick access to documentation, demo projects and new releases via the IDE Help menu, and version information in the About Box



3. Many optimizations to ImageEn code including removing all orphaned methods and types

4. New Swirl effect in Previews dialog and Retouch tool



5. Improvements to PDFium support including updating to 125.0.6046.0 (which restores support for Windows 7) and PDF Engine property to control how PDF documents are loaded and saved. PDFium can now be used for all PDF output, including layer exporting

6. Now provides WYSIWYG editing of PDF page objects: Objects can be selected, moved and resized, including support for clipboard



7. Support for reading PNG Chunks for XMP, ICC and EXIF support

8. Document text can be parsed using Google Vision (TIEGoogleVision)

9. TImageEnProc can retrieve and display an array of all the most common colors in an image

10. PDF documents can be printed by page indexes

 

Learn more about ImageEn, including trial downloads at:

 www.imageen.com

Local Neural Networks to classify objects, detect text and increase resolution in your images with ImageEn v13.1.0 and IEVision 8.1.0

We have now released ImageEn v13.1.0, the latest update to our image editing and display library for Delphi/C++Builder, and IEVision Advanced Tools Add-on 8.1.0. These updates are free if you purchased or extended in the last 12 months. Download from: http://www.imageen.com/support/download/

Other users can extend their registration at: http://www.imageen.com/order/#Extensions

 

Top Ten Enhancements in ImageEn v13.1.0

 

1. New TIEEditControls component: A pre-built set of controls for image editing and effects




2. Many improvements to Proc Previews dialog (and effects chain) including support for Transparency and Choma Key removal, and shape cropping




3. Optimizations to speed and stability of ImageEn Debugging Visualizers, plus support for visualizing TBitmap




4. Enhancements to PDFium Plug-in, including font embedding, and adding images, text, lines and shapes to PDF pages

5. ImageEnView allows Rounded and Polygonal selections of any ImageEn shape, e.g. explosions, dinosaurs, stars, etc.




6. TImageEnProc.Crop supports shape cropping

7. Auto-curving property for TIEShapeLayer and TIEPolylineLayer




8. ImageEn can now save legacy layer files (supported by older versions of ImageEn)

9. Enhancements to ImageMagick support: including unicode filenames, multi-frame support and GIF optimization

10. Warp Brush adds alpha channel support



Full Change History: https://www.imageen.com/info/HistoryFull.html

Top Five Enhancements in IEVision 8.1.0

 

IEVision is our advanced features add-on for ImageEn. V8.1.0 implements local neural net processing, and more:

1. Support for local neural networks to classify objects, detect text and increase resolution




2. Searchable PDF documents can now be created without images

3. New HAAR classifiers: Eye pair, Nose, Mouth, Stop Sign

4. New method to check successful language loading for OCR

5. Improved exception messages for OCR

Full Change History: https://www.imageen.com/ievision/History.html


Nigel
Xequte Software
www.imageen.com

Debugging Visualizers, PDF Object Editing, Improved Stitching and OCR, and much more in ImageEn 13.0.0

 We have now released ImageEn, v13.0.0, the latest update to our image editing and display library for Delphi/BCB, and IEVision Advanced Tools Add-on 8.0.0. These updates are free if you purchased a license or extension after 15 November 2022:

http://www.imageen.com/support/download/

Other users can extend their registration for 12 months at:

http://www.imageen.com/order/index.html#Extensions

Top Ten Enhancements in ImageEn v13.0.0

1. ImageEn now includes visualizers that allow you to preview bitmaps, multi-bitmaps, layers, colors and control properties while debugging




2. Fifteen helper methods that with single call allow you to perform advanced tasks with IEVision: Extract text with OCR, find content, detect faces, people and other objects, deskew images, remove backgrounds, stitch photos and documents and create searchable PDF files




3. Many improvements to PDF support to make it the most complete PDFium implementation for Delphi. With v13, objects in PDF pages (images, text or paths) can be parsed, edited and removed. PDF support is now available from Delphi 7




4. PDF pages can be imported as layers, so all objects become editable image, text or polyline layers

5. Enhanced TIERichEdit with new features to save the selected image, insert links, get/set the RTF formatting of a selection and new actions




6. Many new layer features including MoveTo and Closing breaks for TIEPolylineLayer to create more complex shapes, performance optimizations and memory handling improvements with large images, full rotation of formatted text layers, marking of grouped layers, and new vector shapes: Balloon, Link and "Delphi" Gladiator




7. AutoCrop now supports inner cropping to remove all border from rotated or stitched images




8. SVG and WebP are now automatically supported on Delphi 12 if Skia is enabled

9. Four new demos: Find Objects in Image, Screen Capturing, Custom User Interactions and PDF Object editing, plus thirty functions added to "Every Editing Method" demo




10. Zip plug-in also supports ZipX, 7z and Rar



+ Support for Delphi/BCB 12 Athens

Full Change History: https://www.imageen.com/info/HistoryFull.html

Top Five Enhancements in IEVision 8.0.0

IEVision is our advanced features add-on for ImageEn. V8.0.0 improves OCR, image and photo stitching, and more:

1. OCR now built on Tesseract 5 for greater performance using less system memory, and improved accuracy, particularly with images of low resolution or contrast
2. OCR results can be returned in hOCR, ALTO (XML) and text-seperated value formats
3. Other new OCR features including support for Black and White lists, analysis constructor and confidence values
4. Many enhancements to stitching including new thresholding options and improved performance with documents



5. Other fixes and improvements

Full Change History: https://www.imageen.com/ievision/History.html

 

Xequte Software
www.imageen.com

Improvements in the Delphi 12 Yukon Beta

Yesterday I downloaded and installed the Delphi 12 Beta. We're hoping to issue an update for our imaging display and editing library in the days after the Delphi 12 release, so I wanted to be sure there were no issues.

The first change that I noticed was the new "Features" dialog:

Which now puts all installation information on the same screen. (This dialog is also available under Tools > Manage Features, so you can easily add functionality later).

I intended to tell you how long it took to complete the installation, but by the time I got back from morning tea it was all done, so at best I can say it was faster than I recall some earlier Delphi versions taking.

 

The most important feature for me in an IDE is stability, and in this, I have been happy with Delphi 11. It is certainly is one of the the most stable versions I have ever used (I started with Delphi 3). The beta documentation reports resolution of over 700 issues from quality.embarcadero.com, but in D11, I only ever encountered a few quirks around searching ("Search Whole Words" always mysteriously enabling, for example).

So those were the first things I tested and I'm glad to report that all those quirks appear to have been resolved, and search itself has been improved.

Here's the new "Find in Files" dialog:

You'll notice the new mask to exclude named sub-directories, which is nice.

Another new feature that I tried was instant code insight.

So you might start typing "image" and it immediately suggests the form's ImageEnView1 control. Click "." to insert it, then the first few letters of the member that you want... This is much quicker than the old Ctrl+Space.

Most importantly, I wanted to test the compilation and running of our ImageEn library, and only encountered one minor change under 64bit that needed resolving (a one minute fix). Also, I noted that EXE size only increased by an insignificant 0.5%, which is pleasing.

That's all that I have for now. I won't be using it as my main IDE until the MMX Code Explorer is updated, but I am excited for the new release.

This blog post is based on a pre-release version of the RAD Studio software and it has been written with specific permission by Embarcadero. No feature is committed until the product GA release.