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title: "About Graphics Mill"
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# About Graphics Mill
 
**Aurigma Graphics Mill** is a high-performance image processing library for .NET with a strong focus on **Web-to-Print** workflows and template personalization.
 
It is designed for production systems that need reliable rendering, advanced typography, PSD-based personalization, color-accurate output, and efficient processing of large images.
 
Our typical use cases include:
 
- Web-to-Print personalization engines
- PSD template rendering and variable-data composition
- Server-side image normalization and print preparation
- PDF generation pipelines for production output
- High-volume processing of large raster assets

## Key Features
  
- **Advanced PSD workflows:** Strong parsing and extraction suitable for complex, template-driven personalization. Rendering PSD templates and replacing Smart Objects with warp transforms is available in the separate `Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Templates` NuGet package. See [Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Templates](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/N_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_Templates.htm.md).
- **Sophisticated typography:** A rich text engine supporting point text, text in shape, [text on path](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/advanced-drawing-text.htm.md), OpenType features, paragraphs, tabs, vertical text, lists, and artistic text effects.
- **Professional PDF production:** Multipage PDF generation with support for **PDF/X-4** and **PDF/VT** standards, drawing with spot colors, PDF layers, and rendering text as outlines or as font glyphs.
- **TIFF production features:** Support for multipage TIFFs and extra channels, such as spot-color separations.

Graphics Mill is capable of processing images and print assets of **any size** without "out of memory" errors. By utilizing the efficient [Pipeline API](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/processing-large-images-using-pipelines.htm.md), it handles huge, high-resolution graphics that sets it apart from standard imaging toolkits.
 
## Other Features
  
- [loading/saving images](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/working-with-files.htm.md) to different formats
- [manipulating metadata (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, Adobe Resources)](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/working-with-metadata.htm.md)
- [manipulating image channels](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/reading-and-writing-channels.htm.md)
- [image operations (crop, resize, rotate, flip)](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/transformations-on-images.htm.md)
- drawing [raster data](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/overlaying-images-advanced-drawing.htm.md), [text](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/advanced-drawing-text.htm.md), and [graphics shapes](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/graphics.htm.md) on any image format (including CMYK and 8/16 bit per channel)
- [drawing curved text](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/advanced-drawing-text.htm.md)
- [color management operations (RGB, CMYK, Grayscale with 8/16 bit per channel)](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/color-conversion-and-color-reduction.htm.md)
- [color and tone adjustment](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/color-and-tone-correction.htm.md)
- [image filtering](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/image-filters.htm.md)
- [color keying](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/color-keying.htm.md)
- saving raster and vector data to the [PDF](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/working-with-pdf.htm.md), [SVG](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/working-with-pdf.htm.md), and [EPS](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/working-with-eps.htm.md) formats

All these operations are applicable to images of any size and they are heavily optimized for lightning speed.