Creative Docs .NET

It is now possible to display directly in the document informations about an image:



Simply press the Display object labels button in the View section of the Documents ribbon and a small frame will be displayed around every image, with its name and the resulting image resolution.

You can download the 2.0.5 version. It includes an improved image object which has become decent, at last...

The image property panel now includes an export button which can be used to extract the image from the document, in exactly the same format as it was originally imported. There is no loss in quality and all image tags are preserved.

The image can also be rotated and flipped without having to alter its frame. Various filtering modes can be applied to get smoother scaling. Cropping is the hottest feature: the image can be scaled to automatically fill all the space and then further scaled or shifted in its containing frame.

The file format has changed. We now rely on a ZIP container instead of compressing our document into a single stream. The change was motivated by the new ability to embed images and fonts into a document. This did not work well with a continuous stream, so we switched to what appeared as the most natural choice: a ZIP file format. Try renaming the *.crdoc file into *.zip and peek inside if you are curious.

We also reimplemented the standard open/save dialogs in order to get full control over how the user interface is displayed. We have not reached the richness of a real shell based open or save dialog, but we feel the result was worth the effort:



And, please, let me know if something does not work properly for you. Thanks!

We have been very busy all Summer and we could not invest as much time as we wanted into the project. Still, we have an internal version of Creative Docs .NET which is based on .NET 2.0 (at last!) and as soon as we consider it stable enough, it will become available on this web site. Expect a 2.0 version before the end of October 2006.