The KGy SOFT Drawing Libraries package offers advanced features built around System.Drawing types. Among others: - Fast direct native Bitmap data access for every PixelFormat. - High performance shape/text drawing into Bitmap instances of any pixel format, even indexed ones. - Quantizing and dithering. - Text drawing support even into indexed bitmaps. - Creating GIF animations. - Several built-in icons as well as simple access to Windows associated and stock icons. - Extracting bitmaps from multi-frame bitmaps and icons. - Creating combined icons and multi-resolution bitmaps. - Saving metafiles in EMF/WMF formats. - Advanced support for saving images as Icon, BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF formats. - Converting between various pixel formats preserving transparency if possible. - Useful extensions for the Icon, Bitmap, Image, Metafile and Graphics types. Application Examples: https://github.com/koszeggy/KGySoft.Drawing/tree/master/Examples Debugger Visualizers: https://github.com/koszeggy/KGySoft.Drawing.Tools Online Documentation: https://koszeggy.github.io/docs/drawing See Also: Technology-agnostic core drawing libraries: https://www.nuget.org/packages/KGySoft.Drawing.Core/ WPF specific libraries: https://www.nuget.org/packages/KGySoft.Drawing.Wpf/ UWP specific libraries: https://www.nuget.org/packages/KGySoft.Drawing.Uwp/ WinUI specific libraries: https://www.nuget.org/packages/KGySoft.Drawing.WinUI/ SkiaSharp specific libraries: https://www.nuget.org/packages/KGySoft.Drawing.SkiaSharp/
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$ dotnet add package KGySoft.DrawingReadme
The KGy SOFT Drawing Libraries package offers advanced features for System.Drawing types such as Bitmap, Metafile, Image, Icon, Graphics.
⚠️ Warning: Version 7.0.0 introduced several breaking changes. Most importantly, the technology-agnostic and platform independent APIs have been extracted into a separated package: KGySoft.Drawing.Core.
📝 Note: In .NET 7 and above this package can be used on Windows only. When targeting earlier versions, Unix/Linux based systems are also supported (if the libgdiplus library is installed).
Main highlights:
- Fast direct native Bitmap data access for every PixelFormat.