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title: "Features"
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# Features
 
**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.
 
This topic lists the most valuable features of Graphics Mill. All the features are grouped into the following categories:
 
- General Features
- Codecs and File Formats
- Color Depth and Pixel Formats
- Color Management
- Imaging Operations
- Drawing

## General Features
  
- **Platform Independence:** Support for both **x64** and **x86** architectures.
- **Memory-Friendly Architectures:** High-performance, server-side processing of exceptionally large assets and high-resolution print products without "out of memory" errors. See the [Processing Large Images Using Pipelines](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/processing-large-images-using-pipelines.htm.md) topic for details.
- **Web-to-Print Focus:** Entire toolkit is optimized for high-volume variable data composition, template-driven graphics personalization, and server-side production automation.
 
## Codecs and File Formats
  
- [BMP](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) file format read and write support.
- [GIF](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) file format read and write support, including animated GIF sequences.
- [PNG](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) file format read and write support:
    - Embedded color profiles.
- [JPEG](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) file format read and write support:
    - Lossless JPEG transforms: perform crop, flip, and rotation operations cleanly without recompression artifacts.
    - Embedded ICC color profiles.
    - EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata packages.
    - Adobe Resources metadata and clipping paths.
- [TIFF](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) production-ready print format support:
    - TIFF extra channels for advanced spot colors.
    - Single-page and multi-page TIFF architectures.
    - Embedded color profiles, XMP, EXIF, and clipping paths.
- [PSD](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) advanced template parsing and rendering:
    - Full structural support for raster, text, group, shape layers, and Smart Objects (including warp transforms).
    - Dynamic layer manipulation: edit text fields, swap image assets, toggle layer styles, and merge templates into crisp, high-res products.
    - Fine text adjustments and embedded profile safety.
    - Template rendering is provided by the `Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Templates` NuGet package. See [Installation and Redistribution Notices](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/installation-and-redistribution-notices.htm.md).
- [PDF](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) professional production output:
    - Creation of compliant PDF/X-4 and PDF/VT structures for the print industry.
    - Multi-page PDF compilation with strict layer controls.
    - Flexible text output rules: render text natively or convert characters to vector outlines.
    - Embedded color profiles and reading vector objects from PDF files.
- [SVG](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) file format read and write support, including vector graphics processing.
- [EPS](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) file format read and write support:
    - Writing raster data, text elements, and vector graphics with different color formats and color profiles on the same document.
    - Reading TIFF previews.
- [RAW](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) camera digital data formats read support.
- [WebP](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/supported-file-formats.htm.md) responsive graphic format read and write support, including animated WebP configurations.
 
## Color Depth and Pixel Formats
  
- 1, 4, 8 bit indexed (palette-based) color space reduction.
- 8 bit per channel professional digital images:
    - 8 bit per pixel grayscale;
    - 24 bit per pixel RGB;
    - 32 bit per pixel CMYK;
    - 16 bit per pixel grayscale with alpha;
    - 32 bit per pixel ARGB (RGB + alpha);
    - 40 bit per pixel ACMYK (CMYK + alpha).
- 16 bit per channel high-fidelity archive assets:
    - 16 bit per pixel grayscale;
    - 48 bit per pixel RGB;
    - 64 bit per pixel CMYK;
    - 32 bit per pixel grayscale with alpha;
    - 64 bit per pixel ARGB (RGB + alpha);
    - 80 bit per pixel ACMYK (CMYK + alpha).
- **Spot Colors:** Native rendering and color-accurate output using spot channels.
 
## Color Management
  
- Loading and saving embedded ICC profiles natively inside production files.
- Converting between color spaces using color management (either LittleCMS or Adobe® CMM engine). See the [Selecting Color Management Engine](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/selecting-color-management-engine.htm.md) topic for details.
- Converting between color spaces without color management wrappers.
- Extracting color profile information seamlessly.
- Displaying an image on screen using a device profile.
- Preserving image contrast by using the black point compensation algorithm during conversion.
- Translating a true color image into a palette-based image. See the [Color Reduction](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/color-reduction-basics.htm.md) topic for details.
 
## Imaging Operations
  
- Geometry transforms (resize, rotate, affine and projective transforms, crop, autocrop, flip, cylindrize, warp transform based on a Bezier surface).
- Color and tone adjustments (hue/saturation/lightness correction, brightness correction, contrast correction, levels tone correction, curves tone correction, LUT, histogram equalization, channel balance, desaturation).
- Filters (blur, smart blur, edge detect, maximum filter, median filter, minimum filter, sharpen, unsharp mask).
- Artistic effects (add noise, mosaic, drop shadow, solarize, invert, spray, texturize).
 
## Drawing
  
- Different kinds of pens and brushes: solid, gradient, and tiling.
- Drawing with different color spaces, including spot colors.
- Clipping paths.
- Soft masks.
- Vector shapes: lines, curves, rectangles, ellipses, and polygons, with configurable caps and joins.
- Advanced typography: OpenType features, faux styles, and decorative artistic text shapes, with rich formatting via [Formatted Text](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/advanced-formatted-text.htm.md) markup.
- Different text layouts: point text, text in shape, and [text on path](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm/advanced-drawing-text.htm.md).
- Adaptive text sizing: vertical alignment, copyfitting, and autosize.
- Font metrics calculation (ascender, descender, black box bounds, etc.), and typeface string measuring.