Imaging for Windows Hotfix (service pack) for release 2.8

Global 360 Imaging for Windows®  is document imaging and scanning software for Microsoft Windows. Imaging for Windows is the upgrade to the industry-standard Imaging software included in Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT and Windows 2000 and is suitable for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Global 360 Imaging for Windows was formerly known as Kodak or Wang Imaging Professional or Imaging for Windows.

Imaging for Windows includes an ActiveX toolkit to develop image-enabled applications. The ImgEdit, ImgAdmin, ImgThumb, ImgScan and ImgOCR  Kodak/Wang OCX (ActiveX) controls are included to allow you to add Imaging for Windows functionality to your software.

Download Imaging for Windows Hotfix

Download Imaging for Windows Hotfix 46 for release 2.8 of Imaging. This hotfix should only be applied to release 2.8. Do not use on older releases. 

If a newer version of Internet Explorer is installed after Imaging for Windows, or after an Imaging for Windows Hotfix, there may be a problem running the ActiveX controls in HTML or with Microsoft Office. To resolve this problem, either merge the registry file, activex compatibility - restore.reg (included in this Hotfix package), into the system registry by double-clicking on the file or re-install this HotFix.

Issues Resolved
Some of the issues resolved are listed here:

HotFix 46:
This hotfix introduces a new "averaging" algorithm for scaling of 24-bit (color) images, which eliminates problems with certain types of images being badly displayed due to use of the "decimation" algorithm which had been in use for image scaling prior to this hotfix.

HotFix 45:
This hotfix corrects a problem with using Imaging for Windows with scanners having non-ANSI characters in their names, which caused unexpected error messages when attempting to scan. It also corrects a problem which was causing certain marks to not be resizable. 

HotFix 44:
This hotfix corrects (finally, we hope) the various problems with Kofax Group 4 2D images created by their "Kofax standard Multi-Page TIFF Storage Filter v3.03.000". All displayable files containing Pass Mode coding inconsistencies should now be displayed correctly, and other Kofax errors continue to be handled by displaying as much of the image as possible. Other problems corrected in this hotfix include: (1) Correct error message displayed for clipboard-full error; (2) Elimination of excess Mark Select events; (3) Support for long (>256 character) strings for the AnnotationText property, as well as correct processing of Width/Height arguments for TextFromFile marks. 

HotFix 40:
This hotfix includes a new facility for logging TWAIN requests. It also includes miscellaneous fixes for a recent problem with saving certain types of TIFF JPEG image pages and with performing scaling (Zoom) when using Fit To Selection.

HotFix 35:
This hotfix installs and registers Interop Assembly (dll) files for the five Imaging controls (ImgAdmin, ImgEdit, ImgOCR, ImgScan and ImgThumb), which allows these controls to be used in the .NET 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005) environment. Interop assembly installation is enabled/disabled via either an explicit user prompt or via command line option (+n, -n).

See the full list of resolved issues here.

Imaging for Windows Update for Microsoft .Net/Visual Studio 2005

The Imaging for Windows ActiveX controls can now be used with .Net/Visual Studio 2005 (and particularly VB2005).

Imaging for Windows now supports Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0/Visual Studio 2005. This is provided by the Imaging 2.8 HotFix (service pack).
The Imaging for Windows HotFix package includes the required Interop dlls (see the attached readme file for more info), as well as ImagingNET.pdf, which describes use of Imaging in the .NET environment.

Imaging for Windows is suitable for use with Windows Vista

Imaging for Windows release 2.8 is suitable for use with Windows Vista, as well as Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows.

Imaging Software Development

Download Imaging for Windows development guide

We specialise in developing imaging software applications using Imaging for Windows to your requirements.
See further details of Imaging for Windows here.

Alliance Imager document management, Alliance BatchScan and Alliance PaperChase Records Management are compatible with Global360 Imaging for Windows. 

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Global360 were formerly eiStream, Eastman Software, Kodak and Wang. Imaging for Windows was formerly known as Kodak Imaging Professional or Imaging for Windows Professional Edition. Imaging for Windows is sometimes known as Microsoft Imaging-for-Windows or Windows Imaging.