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Douglas Robar started this project on Thursday, July 16, 2009 it's current version is 2.5.7 .

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Douglas Robar

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Project owner:
Douglas Robar
Created:
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Is Stable:
Project is stable
Current version
2.5.7
License
Proprietary
Tags
media  gallery  images  extension  photo gallery  macro  cache  V4  image  imagegen  picture  preview 
Downloads:
36505

ImageGen

Do you need to create photo or lightbox galleries, screenshot flip books, staff profile or directory pages? Would you like to automatically create graphical text from any font on your server for headlines or menus? Do you need to protect your site’s images with a watermark?

Don’t waste your valuable time manually creating, resizing, or editing each image in Photoshop. ImageGen is an easy-to-use application for your Umbraco (or any ASP.NET 2.0+) website that automatically resizes photos, screenshots, and images from icon to thumbnail to full-screen sizes.

ImageGen can create text graphics as well as overlay text on images, which is particularly useful for making image-based navigation with styled dynamic text on top. And ImageGen can automatically protect and brand your images with watermarks and corporate logos.

With more than 30 options, ImageGen can create hundreds of thousands of variations to meet virtually any need. ImageGen is easy to install and use on your website. ImageGen creates extremely high-quality images quickly. And ImageGen’s advanced caching means images are served immediately for fast and responsive websites.

Purchase ImageGen Professional to get even more features.


Installation Instructions

  1. Install ImageGen 2.5 Package
  2. Read Users Guide and Reference Manual documentation
Upgrade Instructions (from 2.5.x)
  1. Install ImageGen 2.5 'Update' Package
  2. Delete all 'cached' folders
  3. Read Users Guide and Reference Manual documentation
Upgrade Instructions (from earlier versions)
  1. Uninstall prior versions of ImageGen (and manually remove 2 entries in web.config)
  2. Delete all 'cached' folders
  3. Install ImageGen 2.5 Package
  4. Read Users Guide and Reference Manual documentation
  5. Note that imagegen.ashx is now installed to website's root (either move to /umbraco or update macros to use the new location)
 

*** Want to use ImageGen 2.5 with Umbraco 5? ***
Read how at blog.percipientstudios.com/.../...h-umbraco-5.aspx


 
 
What's New?

2.5.1
  • Fixed - Check for Professional version failed intermittantly under high load
 
2.5.2
  • Enhanced - Text auto-wrapping available in ImageGen Basic
2.5.3
  • Enhanced - Add support for CMYK JPEG files. Corrects 'out of memory' error on Win7 and Win2008r2 
 
2.5.4
  • Enhanced - Security checks to ensure requests can't get to images outside website root or path set in ImageBaseDir
  • Enhanced - ImageBaseDir can include drive letters 
  • Enhanced - Performance improvement with .jpg and .tif files
 
2.5.5
  • Enhanced - Orphaned images in cached folder deleted if index.xml becomes corrupt
  • Fixed - Outdated cached images shown when original image file on disk has been changed
 
2.5.6
  • Enhanced - Imagegen.ashx can be placed in any folder
  • Enhanced - ImageBaseDir supoorts paths relative to website root
     <ImageBaseDir>/wwwroot/episerver/images</ImageBaseDir>
  • Enhanced - ImageBaseDir supports paths to specific drives
     <ImageBaseDir>e:\httpdocs\photos</ImageBaseDir>
  • Enhanced - ImageBaseDir supports remote URLs
     <ImageBaseDir>media.example.com/icons</ImageBaseDir>
  • Enhanced - Further security checks to ensure requests can't get to images outside website root or path set in ImageBaseDir
  • Fixed - Cached folder location of remote images when ImageBaseDir contains http://
 
2.5.7
  • Fixed - Black bands shown with PNGs and pad=true

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ImageGen Bugs
109 topics, 670 posts
If you find any bugs, please post them here so we can address them.
May 27, 2013 @ 10:51 by Thomas Kahn
ImageGen "How To"
74 topics, 345 posts
Need help or inspiration about how to use ImageGen on your site, or which settings will give you the effect you're looking for? Here's the place to ask and share...
June 2, 2013 @ 01:22 by Giorgos Grispos