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Good library to load images of different formats

Hi Iam developing an image viewer application just like irfan-view or acdsee which should be capable to view lots of different image file formats (not just the standard ones which can be done with System.Drawing.Image).

Iam currently using ImageMagick but it isn't very fast and seems to be unstable with some image files.

Can anyone suggest a good imaging library, ideally with a .NET wrapper already present?

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I am not sure about .NET wrapper but FreeImage library is rather good. As I know it is faster than imageMagick, and less buggy.

ton4eg  2009-12-20 02:29:01
They do have a dotnet wrapper http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
ram  2009-12-20 04:32:57
It seems FreeImage only focuses in modern image formats. There seem to be no support for PCX, LBM, PIC. Also it cannot render PDF files which is one thing I need.
codymanix  2009-12-20 12:47:19
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There is the DevIL image library that comes with the DevIL.NET wrapper.

Gregory Pakosz  2009-12-20 16:31:37
OK, DevIL supports 40 formats, more than FreeImage, but not nearly as much as ImageMagick supports.
codymanix  2009-12-21 13:46:08
you asked for an alternative :)
Gregory Pakosz  2009-12-21 14:15:18

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