FreeImage 3.11 released - C# wrapper added - Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day

Friday, August 22, 2008

FreeImage 3.11 released - C# wrapper added

FreeImage Project - FreeImage 3.11.0 released

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What's new for FreeImage ?
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Release 3.11.0 mainly adds new compression options to the JPEG and PNG plugins, RGBF support to the TIFF plugin, Vista icons support in ICO Plugin. A new function named FreeImage_CloneMetadata is now available.

Lastly, the library has been updated with the new libtiff (3.9.0), libpng (1.2.29), libMNG (1.0.10) and OpenJPEG (1.3.0) libraries. FreeImage is also distributed with an updated VB6/VBA wrapper and a brand new C# wrapper [GD: Emphasis added].

As usual, check the changes log for full details (especially for bug fixes) and check also the updated FreeImage documentation.
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FreeImage Project – Introduction

“What is FreeImage?

FreeImage is an Open Source library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. FreeImage is easy to use, fast, multithreading safe, compatible with all 32-bit versions of Windows, and cross-platform (works both with Linux and Mac OS X).

Thanks to it's ANSI C interface, FreeImage is usable in many languages including C, C++, VB, C#, Delphi, Java and also in common scripting languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, TCL or Ruby.

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I missed this when it happened (7/28/2008), but still better late than never and all that. I thought the addition of the C# wrapper was pretty cool so wanted to make sure I noted it.