gdiplus.dll

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Windows Process Description:

The DLL gdiplus.dll is a graphical library introduced in 2001 to make two-dimensional drawing easier. GDI+contains two main components: a flat C API where the main implementation rests, and C++ wrappers that reside in the public headers associated with GDI+. Microsoft Windows GDI+ is a class-based API for C/C++ which enables applications to use graphics and formatted text on both the video display and the printer. GDI+ is also supported by Microsoft Win64.

The gdiplus.dll file, sometimes called Graphical Device Interface, is one of the three core components for the user interface which is the GDI Windows manager. The .NET class library provides a managed interface for GDI+ via the System.Drawing namespace.

The GDI+ is an improved 2D graphics environment. It adds advanced features such as anti-aliased 2D graphics, floating point coordinates, gradient shading, more complex path management, intrinsic support for modern graphics-file formats like JPEG and PNG, and general support for composition of affine transformations in the 2D view pipeline. The module gdiplus.dll uses ARGB values to represent color. Use of these features is apparent in Windows XP's user interface, and their presence in the basic graphics layer greatly simplifies implementations of vector-graphics systems such as Flash or SVG. This DLL can be shipped with an application and used under older versions of Windows.

A common premise of GDI+ is the integration of 2D and 3D, from the application programming interface (API) to the device driver interface (DDI). The gdiplus.dll application will use existing 2D and 3D hardware acceleration capabilities by leveraging the Direct3D command stream for all hardware acceleration. GDI+ will share a common driver interface with Direct3D by using a mixture of D3D and GDI+ command tokens for all its rendering.

In purpose and structure, the gdiplus.dll program file is similar to Apple's Quartz 2D subsystem, and the open-source libart and Cairo libraries.

Author: Microsoft Corporation

Author URL: http:// www.microsoft.com

Part Of: Windows Operating System

Memory Usage: High

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