Changes from Version 6.2 to Version 7.0

Version 7.0 of the LEADTOOLS ActiveX has changed from version 6.2 as follows:

You can now load images directly from the Internet into the ActiveX control, which is now a net-aware ActiveX. This means you can support new image formats and image processing on your web pages by adding the LEADTOOLS ActiveX to your HTML code.
New display properties simplify scaling and positioning of images.
You can now read and write progressive JPEG and LEAD CMP files.
You can now read, write, and play back animated GIF files.
You can now read and play back AVI files, and use them to create animated GIF files.
Other features of GIF files are now supported, including interlaced files, the full range of color resolutions, and the use of transparent colors.
When reading and writing TIFF files, you can now use the full range of palette indexes (1-8 bits per pixel).
To support the new formats, you can now use the full range of palette indexes for bitmaps (1-8 bits per pixel).
You can now read and write Kodak FlashPix files.
Compression and decompression of CCITT Group 3 and Group 4, and LEAD 1-bit files is faster in Express editions.
[Express editions only] Display using the scale-to-gray and favor-black options is faster.
LEADTOOLS now provides an OLE server application that you can use to store compressed images in OLE client applications such as Microsoft Access, FoxPro, or Word. (This lets you print the stored images in Access reports.)
LEADTOOLS now provides an Netscape plug-in DLL that makes it easy to use LEAD CMP files with Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.