Since version 5.0, Graphics Mill will be available in two flavors: Standard and Pro. To learn more, you might want to view the comparison charts, what's new page and upgrading terms.

Please notice that full add-on set is now included into Graphics Mill Pro, which now utilizes the power of x64 platforms and multi-core and multi-CPU installations.

The new version includes some nice new features for handling text blocks and image meta data.

Important bug fixes (and some minor ones) are there, as usual. Please do not forget to use evaluation keys for the trial version.

Tacoma, US, WA - November 15, 2007:

Aurigma strikes imaging componentry market with a new beta of Graphics Mill for .NET - which now enjoys the benefits of the x64 architecture. This means immensely large bitmaps can be processed in memory. Thus, Graphics Mill for .NET x64 brings huge benefits for both desktop applications and imaging services. Typically, desktop image processing scenarios may not require extraordinary amounts of available memory. However, if you consider pre-print and serious document imaging applications, here more memory is often a necessity, not a luxury.

Now, why not take a look at heavy-duty image processing servers? Those are constantly fed with huge bitmap retrieval requests and fetch hundreds of megabytes of raster on demand. In any case, memory shortage imposes great limitations: either you do have enough memory for the bitmap or you don't. Hence, the less 'out of memory' errors occur, the more satisfied users you get.

Actually, installing more RAM is not a problem - and neither is installing an x64 operating system. The main issue is that your application needs to support x64. With x64 support, even if a bitmap is so large it occupies more memory space that you have RAM installed, the process will only slow down but not terminate with an exception. Now Graphics Mill is one of the first imaging APIs to rip the benefits of the x64 architecture.

"The new beta would certainly be of interest to the developers of mission critical imaging solutions doing heavy image processing," says Dmitry Sevostyanov, Aurigma CTO. "Surely, the main Graphics Mill for .NET x64 target group are high-demand pre-print preparation and document imaging systems - those that want more memory for processing extralarge bitmaps."

"The new Graphics Mill for .NET beta release enables developers to play with the beta before the upcoming final release. We appreciate any feedback concerning the functionality and runtime of Graphics Mill for .NET x64. Relevant reports and requests will be considered and answered with highest priority."

Pricing and Availability

Graphics Mill for .NET x64beta comes absolutely for free for those who wish to test-drive this x64-enabled imaging API.
You can download beta at http://www.aurigma.com/Download/GraphicsMilldotNETx64Beta.zip
You can subscribe for beta testing program at http://www.aurigma.com/Products/BetaTesting.aspx
Retail price will be published upon the final version release.

About Aurigma

Founded in 2002, Aurigma has gained wide expertise in delivering state of the art tools and SDKs for imaging application developers. Our broad customer base includes some Fortune 500 companies and leading social networks. For more information, be sure to visit http://www.aurigma.com.

We are happy to announce the release of the ground-breaking x64-enabled version of Graphics Mill for .NET. Now handling huge images is no more a problem: Graphics Mill for .NET x64 will take care of images of virtually any size – and prevent the ‘out of memory’ messages from being thrown by your application.

You are welcome to participate in the x64 beta testing program (of course, it's free). Be sure to check out our news line for the announcement of the final Graphics Mill for .NET x64 release.

The new version of Graphics Mill for NET. brings a bunch of improvements. Those include revamped web controls based on ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX framework, Adobe image resource blocks support and many other prominent features.

The full list of new features can be viewed on the What's New page.

Graphics Mill for .NET licensing procedure has become more convenient. For a detailed explanation of the new licensing mechanism, read the Applying License Keys article.

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All existing customers of Graphics Mill for .NET can upgrade to version 3.5 for free. Add-ons should be purchased separately.

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Good news for all existing customers of Graphics Mill 2.0 (ActiveX version): to ease a migration from ActiveX to .NET version, the documentation now includes upgrade guidelines.

All existing customers of Graphics Mill 3.0 for .NET can use version 3.1 without extra fee.

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Aurigma releases new imaging component library for .NET Framework, called Graphics Mill for .NET. It is not just a port from ActiveX to .NET platform, it includes a lot of new features comparing to the ActiveX version.

Aurigma takes care both for ASP.NET and Windows application developers. New Graphics Mill includes both Web and Windows Forms visual controls. In particular, unique Web control enables you creating online photo editors and similar applications.

Read more detailed about Graphics Mill 3.0 for .NET.

Aurigma анонсирует новый продукт - Graphics Mill 3.0 для платформы .NET. Этот продукт является продолжением линейки программных компонент для обработки изображений Graphics Mill.

Новый Graphics Mill предназначен для использования в приложениях работающих на платформе Microsoft .NET. Однако "Оригма" не отказывается от рынка ActiveX-компонент и в будущем планируется выход и ActiveX-версии Graphics Mill 3.0.

В этой версии было внесено множество улучшений по сравнению с предыдущей версией: как архитектурные усовершенствования (возможность использования в многопоточных приложениях, гибкий механизм создания собственных эффектов и кодеков), так и новые возможности (поддержка работы с EXIF и IPTC, улучшенная поддержка форматов файлов, и т.д.).

В настоящий момент доступна предварительная версия. Выпуск окончательной версии планируется на начало октября.

Если вы заинтересованы в получении более подробной информации, напишите нам.

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