Alternatives to System.Drawing for use with ASP.NET?

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There is an excellent blog post including C# code about using the ImageMagick graphics library through Interop over at TopTen Software Blog. This post deals specifically with running ASP.net on linux under mono; however, the C# code should be perfectly copy-paste-able, the only thing you’ll need to change is the Interop attributes if you are running under windows referencing a window binary (DLL).

ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert
bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats
(over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD,
PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip,
mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image
colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons,
ellipses and Bézier curves.

There is also an ImageMagick .Net development project on codeplex that wraps up everything for you. But it doesn’t show active development since 2009, so it may be lagging behind the current ImageMagick library version. For a small trivial resizing routine, I’d probably stick with the interop. You just need to watch your implementation carefully for your own memory leak or unreleased resources (the library itself is well tested and vetted by the community).

The library is free and open source. The Apache 2 license appears to be compatible with both personal and commercial purposes. See ImageMagick License Page.

The library is totally cross platform and implements many powerful image handling and transformation routines that are not found in GDI+ (or not implemented under mono) and has a good reputation as an alternative for ASP.net image processing.

Update: Looks like there is an updated version of a .NET wrapper here: http://magick.codeplex.com/

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