Need a Tif annotation tool

[MAF]

VB.Net Forums:

Our goal is to be able to easily do annotations (opaque and transparent) to .tif files. It looks as if a quick and easy way to do this is to use the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. I'm wondering how to insert this application into a .net form. It looks as if C:\Windows\system32\shimgvw.dll is used by the Picture and Fax Viewer but I haven't found a way to get a control to appear to use this.

I'd also like to be able to use this control in a VB6 application.

Does anyone know how to get this to be usable in .net or VB6? Can anyone recommend a truly good annotation tool which can be used by VB6 and .net 2005 that is also economical?

Thanks in advance,

MAF

 

[JohnH]

The Image Viewer can't edit afaik. It's easy to write text on images with .Net., something like this:

Dim img As Image = Image.FromFile("thefile.tif")
Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(img)
g.DrawString("hello", Me.Font, Brushes.Red, 0, 0)
g.Dispose()
img.Save("newfile.tif", Imaging.ImageFormat.Tiff)

I think MSDN have an article about how to use a .Net class library with old VB, try search for it.