Restrictions and limitations

  • Virtual Image Processing component supports the following file formats:
    Format Subformats Multipage support Reading Writing
    ABC — ABC Format     + +
    AFP — AFP/PTOCA Format     +  
    BMP — Win Bitmap Formats 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 BPP   + +
    BMP — OS2 Bitmap Format 4, 8, 24 BPP; 1 BPP: OS/2 BMP version 1.x; 1 BPP: OS/2 BMP version 2.x   + +
    CLP — Microsoft Windows Clipboard 8, 24 BPP   + +
    CMP — LEAD Compressed 8, 24 BPP   + +
    CUT — Dr Halo 8 BPP   + +
    DWF — Design Web Format     +  
    DWG     +  
    DXF — Drawing Interchange Format     +  
    ECW — Enhanced Compressed Wavelet     + +
    EMF — Windows Metafile Format  8, 24 BPP   + +
    EPS — PS-Encapsulated PostScript     + +
    EXIF — Exif Formats EXIF     + +
    FLC — FLC and FLI-Flic Animation 8 BPP + + +
    FPX — Flashpix Format 8 BPP; 24 BPP: FlashPix, with no compression; 24 BPP: FlashPix, compressed with the single color method; 24 BPP: FlashPix, compressed with JPEG, using the default Q factor; 24 BPP: FlashPix, compressed with JPEG, using a specified Q factor + + +
    GIF — Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format     + +
    HPGL — Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language     +  
    IFF — Interchange File Format 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 BPP Interchange File-RLE Compressed: 3 – 8, 24 BPPInterchange File-multiple images per file-RLE Compressed: 3 – 8, 24 BPPInterchange File-Uncompressed: 1 – 8, 24 BPPInterchange File-multiple images per file-Uncompressed: 1 – 8, 24 BPP only CAT and CAT RLE compressed subformats + +
    JBG — JBIG2 Format     + +
    JBG-JBIG Format 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32 BPP   + +
    JP2 — JPEG 2000 Compressed     + +
    JPG — JPEG Compressed     + +
    MRC — LEADTOOLS Mixed Raster Content     + +
    MRC — Mixed Raster Content     + +
    NITF — National Imagery Transmission Format (version 2.1 only)     +  
    PBM — Portable Bitmap Utilities Format     + +
    PCL — Printer Command Language Format     +  
    PCT — Macintosh Pict Format 1, 4, 8, 16, 24 BPP + + +
    PCX — PCExchange Format 1, 4, 8, 24 BPP + + +
    PDF — Portable Document Format 1, 2, 4, 8, 24 BPP1 BPP: JBIG2 Compression 24 BPP: Lead MRC Compression + + +
    PGM — Portable Bitmap Format 8 BPP   + +
    PNG — Portable Network Graphics Format     + +
    PPM — Portable Bitmap Format 24 BPP   + +
    PS — PostScript     +  
    PSD — Adobe PhotoShop Format 1, 8, 24 BPP   + +
    PSP — Paint Shop Pro Format     + +
    RAS — SUN Raster Format 4, 8, 24, 32 BPP   + +
    SCT — Scitex Continuous Tone 24 BPP   + +
    SFF — Structured Fax File Format     + +
    SGI — Silicon Graphics Image Format 8, 24, 32 BPP   + +
    TGA — Truevision TARGA Format 8, 16, 24, 32 BPP   + +
    TIFF — Tagged Image File Format 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48 BPP; 1 BPP: JBIG2, ABIC; 4 BPP: ABIC; 12 BPP: Uncompressed, Packbits (RLE), Lossless JPEG, JPEG (Gray) YCbCr, LZW, JPEG 2000 Stream, Wavelet CMP, JBIG; 16 BPP: JBIG; 24 BPP: CMP, LEAD CMP, JBIG; 32 BPP: JBIG + + +
    WMF — Windows Metafile Format 8, 24 BPP   + +
    WPG — WordPerfect Format 1, 4, 8 BPP   + +
    XPM — XPicMap 8, 16, 24, 32 BPP   + +
    XPS — XML Paper Specification     + +
    XWD — X WindowDump (10) 1, 4, 8 BPP   + +
    XWD — X WindowDump (11) 1, 8, 4, 16, 24, 32 BPP   + +
  • This component cannot process PDF files of size greater than 2 GB. This is the restriction of the LeadTools™ technologies used by this component. It is recommended to use compression when you process PDF documents.
  • Since the LeadTools™ rasterizes PDF and other vector format files, the output file can be much bigger in size than the input file.
  • VIP does not support vector-specific transformations and saving in vector formats. If you plan to process vector images via VIP, you have to configure conversion to one of supported raster formats.
  • Some vector formats such as DWF, DWG can contain definitions of 3D objects. VIP does not perform any 3D transformation of the input images, so the resulting image will contain a projection of 3D model to default plane.
  • LeadTools opens PCL files as black and white images even if they are colored.
  • LeadTools opens only the first page of multipage PS/EPS file, and it’s not possible to process such files via VIP. See: http://support.leadtools.com/SupportPortal/CS/forums/34924/ShowPost.aspx.
  • Not all formats have a multipage support. If the component receives a multipage document and converts it to another format that does not support multipage documents, the component will generate a separate output document for each page of the input document. These documents will have the same name as the input document but with an index; for example, inputdocname_1.jpg, inputdocname_2.jpg
  • Multipage PCT images are not supported. All pages of the multipage PCT image will be lost except for the last one.