--- title: "Codecs" canonical: https://www.graphicsmill.com/samples/tags/codecs product: "Graphics Mill" --- # Codecs Image codecs for various formats - [Browse all samples]() ## Samples - [Add a tiled watermark to PDF pages](): Adds a semi-transparent, rotated tiled text watermark to every page of a PDF file. - [Add and remove pages in an existing PDF](): Rebuilds an existing PDF page by page, removing one page and inserting a new one. - [Combine multiple PDF files into one document](): Combines the pages of several existing PDF files into one multi-page PDF document. - [Compare Image Format Compressions](): Compare compression efficiency of WebP, JPEG, and PNG formats. - [Convert And Write JPEG](): Converts an image to 24bpp RGB format and saves it as a JPEG file. - [Convert Animated GIF Image To WebP](): Convert an animated GIF image to WebP format, preserving animation. - [Convert Clipping Path To TGA](): Converts a clipping path from a JPEG to an alpha channel and saves as TGA. - [Convert From WPF](): Convert a WPF BitmapFrame to a GraphicsMill Bitmap. - [Convert To Indexed](): Converts an RGB image to an 8-bit indexed format with dithering and a custom palette. - [Convert To WPF](): Convert a GraphicsMill Bitmap to a WPF BitmapSource. - [Create a die-cut outline around artwork](): Traces the outline of a PNG with transparency, offsets and smooths it, and writes it as a spot-colour cut line to PDF. - [Create a PDF/VT file with personalized business cards](): Creates a PDF/VT file with personalized business card records for a batch of recipients. - [Create a PDF/X-4 file with CMYK output intent](): Creates a PDF/X-4 file with CMYK output intent and color-managed images. - [Create Business Card](): Creates a business card layout and saves it as a PDF file. - [Create Multipage PDF](): Generates personalized multipage PDF invitations with variable data. - [Crop Jpeg Losslessly](): Performs a lossless crop on a JPEG image and saves the result. - [Draw On PDF With Spot Color](): Fills a rectangle with a PANTONE spot color in a PDF document. - [Draw Spot On CMYK](): Draws text and an image on a spot channel over a CMYK background in a PDF. - [Enum Container Elements](): Enumerate and print the elements of a graphics container from a PDF file. - [Fade and shape images with soft masks](): Fades a photo with a gradient luminosity mask and cuts another to the shape of a PNG with an alpha mask, then writes them to PDF. - [Flip Jpeg Losslessly](): Flips a JPEG image horizontally without recompression, preserving image quality. - [Lay out paragraphs, lists, and tab-aligned columns in a PDF](): Lays out paragraphs, a bulleted list, and a dot-leader tab-aligned schedule directly in a PDF. - [Load Multiframe Image](): Loads a multi-frame TIFF image and saves each frame as a separate JPEG file. - [Load Save Stream](): Loads an image from a stream, applies JPEG quality settings, and saves it to another stream. - [Overlay one PDF's graphics onto another](): Overlays the vector content of one PDF, a seal, onto every page of another PDF. - [PDF Layers](): Creates a PDF document with multiple visible and invisible layers. - [PDF To SVG](): Convert vector content from a PDF file to SVG format. - [Place JPEG photos into a PDF without recompression](): Embeds RGB and CMYK JPEG files into a PDF byte for byte with CompressedImage, which is faster and uses less memory than decoding and recompressing them. - [Png NeuQuant Example](): Saves images to PNG using various bit depths, quantization, and dithering methods. - [Rasterize a PDF page two ways: quick vs. full control](): Compares PdfFrame.GetBitmap, a quick RGB24 preview, against GraphicsContainerRasterizer, which allows any pixel format and resolution. - [Read and Write JPEG](): Reads a JPEG image, flips it vertically, and saves it as a new JPEG with high-quality settings. - [Read and write PDF page boxes](): Defines print production page boxes (bleed, trim, art) on a 300 DPI PDF using UnitConverter, then reads them back with PdfReader. - [Read Animated Gif](): Reads all frames from an animated GIF and saves each as a separate file. - [Read Convert And Write TGA](): Reads a TGA image, converts it to 16-bit with RLE compression, and saves it. - [Read Extra Channel From TIFF](): Extracts an extra channel from a TIFF image and saves it as a new TIFF file. - [Read Image Metadata](): Reads EXIF and IPTC metadata from an image file without loading bitmap data. - [Read image with WPF](): Shows how to use a custom WPF image reader to pass an image into a processing pipeline. - [Read Multiframe TIFF](): Reads a multi-frame TIFF image and saves each frame as a JPEG file. - [Read Multiframe TIFF Memory Friendly](): Reads a multi-frame TIFF using a memory-friendly pipeline and saves each frame as JPEG. - [Read RAW Image](): Reads a RAW image file and saves it as a JPEG image. - [Read TIFF](): Reads the first frame of a TIFF image and saves it as a JPEG file. - [Recolor Red Strokes](): Detect and recolor red strokes in a graphics container. - [Recompress JPEG partially](): Applies a mosaic effect to a region of a JPEG image and updates only that region using partial recompression. - [Replace Process Color](): Converts a process color to a spot color and saves the result as a PDF. - [Resize Animated Gif](): Resizes an animated GIF to fixed dimensions while preserving animation properties. - [Resize while reading JPEG](): Resizes a JPEG image by a factor of 2 during decoding using the codec’s built-in scaling. - [Rotate JPEG losslessly](): Rotates a JPEG image 90 degrees clockwise without recompression, preserving quality. - [Save Multiframe Image](): Saves multiple images as frames in a single multipage TIFF file. - [Save Spot Image To PDF](): Creates an image with a spot color and saves it to a PDF file. - [Save Vector Content To JPEG](): Rasterize PDF vector content and save as JPEG. - [Supply linked images when reading SVG](): Resolves the image references of an SVG from a local asset cache with the ResolveImage callback and converts the SVG to PDF. - [SVG To PDF](): Convert an SVG file to PDF format. - [TIFF Extra Channels To Spot Color Space](): Converts a TIFF with extra channels to a PDF using separation color space. - [Update JPEG metadata losslessly](): Updates JPEG metadata (IPTC, EXIF, XMP) without recompressing the image. - [Write Animated Gif](): Creates an animated GIF by generating frames with a moving green circle. - [Write Animated WebP](): Create a simple animated image in WebP format. - [Write bitmap to EPS](): Loads a JPEG image and saves it directly as an EPS file. - [Write Bitmap To PDF Memory Friendly](): Saves a JPEG image to PDF using a memory-friendly pipeline approach. - [Write Extra Channel](): Adds an extra alpha channel to a TIFF image using a grayscale bitmap. - [Write Extra Channel With Display Info](): Saves extra channels with display info to Adobe resources in a TIFF file. - [Write Extra Channel With Name](): Saves an extra channel with a custom name to a TIFF image using Adobe resources. - [Write image with WPF](): Demonstrates saving an image from a pipeline using a custom WPF image writer. - [Write Multiframe TIFF](): Create a TIFF file with multiple frames, each with its own compression. - [Write PNG Image](): Reads a JPEG image, flips it vertically, and saves it as a PNG file. - [Write raster and vector graphics to EPS](): Creates an EPS file with both a bitmap and vector graphics, including shapes and styled text. - [Write Raster And Vector Graphics To PDF](): Saves both raster and vector graphics to a PDF file with compression. - [Write Text To PDF](): Writes plain and round text as PDF text with embedded fonts. - [Write TGA](): Reads a JPEG image, flips it vertically, and saves it as a TARGA file. - [Write TIFF](): Convert a JPEG image to TIFF format with JPEG compression. - [Write WebP](): Convert a JPEG image to WebP format with quality settings. - [Write WebP Lossy And Lossless](): Save an image in both lossy and lossless WebP formats.