Imaging Plug-ins Overview

Imaging Plug-ins OverviewThis document introduces you to the Imaging Plug-ins component.

Purpose

The Imaging Plug-ins component is used by the Imaging Frameworks component to access image formats.

Required background

An understanding of image formats is required, see Imaging Frameworks Overview.

Architecture

The Imaging Plug-ins component interacts with the Imaging Framework component.

Note: A client application cannot access the Imaging plug-ins directly as all communication is done through the Imaging Framework component.

APIs

Imaging Plug-ins includes the following functionality:

API Description

bitmaptransformsrefplugin.dll

The Bitmap Transform Plug-in provides support for scaling and rotating. For more information see Bitmap Transform Overview

bmpcodec.dll

The BMP Codec Plug-in provides support for encoding and decoding the BMP format.

gifcodec .dll

The GIF Codec Plug-in provides support for encoding and decoding the GIF format.

icocodec.dll

The ICO Codec Plug-in provides support for decoding the ICO format.

jpegcodec.dll

The JPEG Codec Plug-in provides support for encoding and decoding the JPEG Image Frame Plug-in. For more information see JPEG Image Frame Plug-in Overview

jpegyuvdecoder.dll

The JPEG YUV Decoder Plug-in provides support for decoding the JPEG and the YUV format.

mbmcodec.dll

The MBM Codec Plug-in provides support for encoding and decoding the MBM format.

mngimagedisplay.dll

The MNG Image Codec Plug-in provides support for decoding and displaying the MNG format.

pngcodec.dll

The PNG Codec Plug-in provides support for decoding the PNG format.

tiffcodec.dll

The TIFF Codec Plug-in provides support for decoding the TIFF format.

wmpcodec.dll

The WMP Codec Plug-in provides support for decoding the WMP format.

wmfcodec.dll

The WMF Codec Plug-in provides support for decoding the WMF format.

Typical uses

Imaging Plug-ins provides support for

the Bitmap Transform library to scale and rotate images. For more information see Bitmap Transform Overview
the Image Conversion library to encode and decode the images. For more information see Image Conversion Overview
the Image Display library to display the images. For more information see Image Display Overview

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